Strickland, Matthew & Hardy, Robert.
The Great Warbow: From Hastings to the Mary Rose.
Publisher:
Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud;
Date of Publication:
2005
Stock Code:
5799
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp xix, [3], 538. Illustrated throughout including maps. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Lower corners bumped otherwise a very clean copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little creased at lower corners (corresponding to bump) with minor rubbing to head of spine. Overall a Very Good copy in like jacket.
Major study of the longbow in warfare, using information gleaned from the discovery of numerous examples found in the wreckage of the Mary Rose- a fresh and authoritative account of one of the deadliest and most feared weapons of the Middle Ages.
£65.00