A close study of the military and political strategies of Edward III and the Black Prince, whose great victories had by 1360 made England the foremost martial n

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and

Contemporary documents and classic studies follow Edward's fortunes on the battlefield, from failure against the Scots to major military successes in France.

Even as a canon, he lived in princely style, with a retinue of two knights and forty squires, and he wrote at the request of John of Hainault, the uncle of quee