Forthcoming Medieval History Book: Divided Houses: Hundred Years War Vol 3 by Jonathan Sumption

Paperback ISBN:9780571240128 Published:01.03.2012 No of pages:700 The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses (The Middle Ages Series) is the third volume of Jonathon Sumption’s epic history of the Hundred Years War. If you want to read about every turn of this conflict then I would recommend this series of books. I got this in [...]

Review of Chivalry at Edi’s Book Lighthouse

I always have a bit of trepidation when sending a piece of my work out into the world, so I’m very happy to report that the feedback to ‘Chivalry: A Jake Savage Adventure’ has been very positive. As well as good reviews on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Smashwords, the story has also been picked up by [...]

HISTORY Great Battles Medieval RPG Battle Game

This looks quite interesting, but shame there are no screenshots or videos. Wonder how it will compare to Medieval Total War? The screenshots of their previous game HISTORYTM Great Battles of Rome, look very Total War like. Here’s some info: HISTORYTM Great Battles Medieval is based on the historical events of the Hundred Years War, [...]

Press-ganged into the Lancastrian Affinity

Just a quick update on what I have been doing recently on my novel. At the moment I am “just” doing research for my novel. This means I am reading a lot of books, making notes etc. The book I am reading at the moment is The Lancastrian Affinity 1361-1399 by Simon Walker. It describes [...]

French get it right against English Archers

I have just been scanning through a number of descriptions of Hundred Years War battles over at Wikipedia (so not necessarily 100% accurate), and as I expected it seems that in no cases were dismounted men-at-arms sent against archers. However, in later years the French did start to perfect the tactic of charging the English [...]

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