Fields Of Glory: Michael Jecks

The Vintener Trilogy I. The year is 1346 and King Edward III is determined to pursue his claim to the French throne. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and he has not managed to bring the French to a decisive battle. Determined to bring France under English rule and the French army to its knees he has regrouped and planned a new route of attack. England, the little nation with its puny chivalry so sneered at by the great French army, is launching a fearful assault. A chevauchée so violent, so brutal, so devastating that the French King will be forced to come and defend is realm. It will be total war: war against peasant and freeman, farmer and nobleman and no-one will be left unchanged by it...least of all the men of the vintaine of archers under Sir John de Sully...