BOWMEN OF ENGLAND

From the twelve to the fifteenth centuries, the longbow was the weapon that changed European history more than any other. In the skilled hands of English and Welsh archers, it revolutionised all the medieval concepts and traditions of war. Donald Featherstone's study of the English longbow from its early development until the Wars of the Roses is an inspiring and authentiv reconstruction in human terms in an age of courage, vitality and endurance.