Why read The Battle of Crécy, 1346?

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With additional contributions from Francoise Autrand, Christophe Piel, Michael Prestwich, and Bertrand Schnerb.

On the evening of 26 August 1346, the greatest military power in Christendom, the French royal army withPhilip VI at its head, was defeated by an expeditionary force from England under the command of Edward III. A…

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Gordon Corrigan

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There are lots of books about Crecy, the first major land battle of the war, but here the authors examine and compare all the original sources.

Medieval historians were not necessarily interested in the things that modern historians are, so there are many gaps in the various accounts. Similarly, many academics, through no fault of their own, do not understand the mechanics of organising, deploying, and administering an army, or how it actually fought.

Here the authors do examine points such as what formation the English armies would have taken up, where exactly the archers would have been placed, and…

From Gordon's list on the Hundred Years' War.