Bowmen of England (Pen & Sword Military Classics) - Softcover

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 revolutionized 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.

Donald Featherstone is a military expert who is the author of Poitiers 1356, Warriors and Warfare in Ancient and Medieval Times and Victorian Colonial Warfare. The Introduction is written by the pre-eminent medieval scholar Richard Barber.