From the twelve to the fifteenth centuries, the longbow was the weapon that changed European history more than any other. In the skilled hands of English and Welsh archers, it revolutionized all the medieval concepts and traditions of war. Donald Featherstone's study of the English longbow from its early development until the Wars of the Roses is an inspiring and authentiv reconstruction in human terms in an age of courage, vitality and endurance.
Chapter 2. The Welsh Wars – Late Thirteenth Century
Chapter 3. The Armies of the English and the French
Chapter 4. Their Way of Fighting
Chapter 7. Falkirk sets the Pattern – 1298
Chapter 9. Halidon Hill – 1333
Chapter 10. The Archer at Sea: Sluys – 1340
Chapter 13. Neville’s Cross – 1346
Chapter 16. Homildon Hill – 1402
Chapter 18. Verneuil – 1424; and Rouvray – 1428
Chapter 19. Patay – 1429; and Formigny – 1450
Chapter 20. The Wars of the Roses – 1461
Chapter 21. Flodden Field – 1513
Chapter 22. The End of the Road