A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages: Volume II, 1278-1485

Volume Two covers the Welsh Wars of Edward I, Bannockburn, the Hundred Years War, the rise of the Swiss, the Condottieri in Italy, the Hussite Wars, and the Wars of the Roses. Particular emphasis is given to the early use of gunpowder and its effect on tactics and siegecraft. Sir Charles Oman was one of Britain’s foremost historians and author of A History of the Peninslar War.