Longbow : A Social and Military History

from jcbrunner

Archery and the longbow are the author's passion who is an actor by profession (appearing as Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movies). His own image, both painted and photographed, appears a few times too many in this otherwise splendid book that collects a lot of information about the English...

from DinadansFriend

An excellent history about an important weapon by an expert. The longbow has been mythologized, and sometime just lied about, but non-the-less it was a game-changer on the battlefield. Mr. Hardy's bow has even inspired revisionist rivals in the field of weapon research, but remains a seminal work...

from motortmech

This book, while more of a textbook and manual than anything, was absolutely helpful in my research of the Hundred Years War in which longbow men were highly sought after and greatly and effectively utilized to soundly defeat the French on many occasions. It beings with the basic history of arche...

from motortmech

This book, while more of a textbook and manual than anything, was absolutely helpful in my research of the Hundred Years War in which longbow men were highly sought after and greatly and effectively utilized to soundly defeat the French on many occasions. It beings with the basic history of arche...