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The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny, 1360 - Hardcover

Burne, Alfred H.

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9781853670817: The Crecy War: A Military History of the Hundred Years War from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny, 1360

Synopsis

The Hundred Years' War was, in effect, four wars. This volume presents a military history of the war from 1337 to the Peace of Bretigny in 1360. The companion volume, "The Agincourt War" covers the later part of the War to 1453.

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About the Author

Alfred Higgins Burne was born in 1886. He was educated at Windsor School and the RMA Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1906 and won the D.S.O. In the First World War. He was involved in Cadet Training during the Second World War. He wrote nine important books on military history. Alfred Burne died in 1959.

Review

"The reader . . . should be grateful for a discussion which makes clearer the reason for Henry of Lancaster's great reputation in his own time, and for presenting the different theaters of operation in proper perspective as part of a war plan."-American Historical Review

?The reader . . . should be grateful for a discussion which makes clearer the reason for Henry of Lancaster's great reputation in his own time, and for presenting the different theaters of operation in proper perspective as part of a war plan.?-American Historical Review

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