
Crécy
Battle of Five Kings
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Rupert Farley
Bloomsbury presents Crécy by Michael Livingston, read by Rupert Farley.
Like Crécy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.’- Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series
A groundbreaking new study of the battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War.
The battle of Crécy in 1346 is one of the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history. The repercussions of this battle were felt for hundreds of years, and the exploits of those fighting reached the status of legend. Yet cutting-edge research has shown that nearly everything that has been written about this dramatic event may be wrong.
In this new study, Michael Livingston reveals how modern scholars have used archived manuscripts, satellite technologies and traditional fieldwork to help unlock what was arguably the battle’s greatest secret: the location of the now quiet fields where so many thousands died.
Crécy: Battle of Five Kings is a story of past and present. It is a new history of one of the most important battles of the Middle Ages: a compelling narrative account of the battle of Crécy that still adheres to the highest scholarly standards in its detail. It is also an account that incorporates the most cutting-edge revelations and the personal story of how those discoveries were made.
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Fantastic book!
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Extraordinary
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Big Reveal Missing
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My only complaint is too much time was spent covering the history of the conflicts between England and France since the time of William The Conqueror but that's easily fixed by skipping ahead.
Controversial But Correct Take
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Farley's narration is captivating and I have to believe he was genuinely interested in the topic as he reads it. Anyone who has listened to a few audiobooks on the Middle Ages knows that sometimes the narrators sometimes seem to be fighting to stay awake. This is not the case with Farley, who delivers the work energetically and with proper French pronunciations.
A must for the Medieval Historian
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Most of the book is spent in the back ground of the events that lead to the battle and the research that went into deciding that the battle may not have taken place where most history tell us that it did.
Very good book, as it really gave me a flavor the that time in history...
Not the Tactics of the Battle
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A fascinating detailed telling of battle
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Great story
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