'One of England's greatest medieval battles, here brilliantly brought to life by one of Britain's great military historians.' Robert Lyman, author of A War of Empires

The Hundred Years War.

England's armies continue to win battles against the enemy across the channel, yet the French are no nearer to accepting England's claims.

Edward III's eldest son, Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince, who fought at Crecy at the age of sixteen and now an experienced and hardened soldier, embarks on another expedition to end the war.

The dramatic campaign climaxes in the great battle of Poitiers, where the French deploy an army three times the size of the Prince's. But despite the discrepancy, English archers and steady infantry win the day.

The French king is captured and the French nobility slaughtered. France collapses into anarchy.

The legacy of the battle is the Treaty of London of 1358, but will it end the war?

Bestselling military historian Gordon Corrigan captures the heroism and horror of the campaign, putting it into the context of the wider war and offering the reader an insight into the ferocity and the fighting - and why the English and Black Prince proved victorious.

Major Gordon Corrigan is a retired Gurkha officer, a member of the British Commission for Military History and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Fluent in the Nepali language, he is now a freelance military historian and battlefield lecturer. He is a well-known figure on the History channel. He is also the author of Sepoys in the Trenches, Loos: 1915 and Wellington: A Military Life.

Praise for Gordon Corrigan:
'An insightful book, which captures the drama and significance of the battle... Corrigan's prose is gripping, whilst his judgement is measured.' Oliver Webb-Carter, Editor of Aspects of History

'Political, fluent, well-researched and extremely argumentative.' Andrew Roberts

'Meticulously researched and well-written.' Pennant

Sepoys in the Trenches:
'In this scholarly and eminently readable book, Major Gordon Corrigan... has, at a stroke, filled a significant gap in the historiogaphy of the the First World War.' Professor Peter Simkins

The Second World War: A Military History:
'... will serve as an invaluable source of reference, but more to the point this book should be savoured for its trenchant opinions and its forceful and uncluttered prose.' The Daily Express

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