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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1979 divers excavating the wreck of the Tudor warship the Mary Rose discovered numerous yew longbows in remarkable condition some still in their packing chests. These finds revolutionised our knowledge of the power and performance of the weapon that helped to win the great battles of Cr?cy Poitiers and Agincourt. Robert Hardy one of the experts closely involved in the conservation of the Mary Rose bows joins medieval historian Matthew Strickland to produce this major study of the medieval longbow at war. Though the longbow is most famous for its role in the Hundred Years War in this re-issue of a much-loved classic the authors take us on a fascinating journey through its long history in battle from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking period right up to the Wars of the Roses and the longbow’s gradual decline in Tudor England. We see its deployment in diverse theatres of war in Wales and Ireland on the crusades in Syria and Palestine and in guerrilla warfare deep in the forests of England. (OS)