Edward Longshanks' Forgotten Conflict: The Anglo-French War 1294-1303
About this ebook
The result was a series of military stalemates, demonstrating that neither England nor France could achieve outright victory in a head-to-head conflict. There were plenty of bloody incidents and much hard fighting: the hanging of Gascon prisoners from the walls of Rions in 1295, for instance, or the epic thirteen-week siege of Saint Sever.
David Pilling places the war in its proper context and argues it was a vital step on the road to the more famous conflict we remember as the Hundred Years War.
About the author
David Pilling is a full-time author and historian based in West Wales, where he was raised on a smallholding. As a child he acquired a love for the Welsh countryside and Welsh history, especially the medieval era. He has written a successful series of novels set in the Middle Ages. His particular interests lie in the Edwardian wars of the late 13th century. He is the author of ‘Rebellion Against Henry II’ and ‘Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307’.
