1st Edition

The Road to Crecy The English Invasion of France, 1346

By Marilyn Livingstone, Morgen Witzel Copyright 2004
384 Pages
by Routledge

The Road to Crécy tells the story of the English expedition to France in 1346 which climaxed with the battle of Crécy.  On 26 August 1346 on a low ridge outside the village of Crécy-en-Ponthieu in northwestern France, an English army of perhaps 12,000 men under the command of King Edward III faced a combined French and German force five times their number under Edward's rival King Philip... Read more

1 The Road to War 2 The Antagonists 3 Preparations 4 St-Vaast to Carentan 5 Carentan to Caen 6 Caen to Elbeuf 7 Elbeuf to Poissy 8 Poissy to Airaines 9 The Somme 10 Crécy-en-Ponthieu 11 Aftermath Appendix Bibliography

Biography

Marilyn Livingstone has a PhD from The Queen's University of Belfast where her thesis was an analysis of Edward III's Nonae tax of 1340-41. She is a regular reviewer for academic journals and the author of several articles, the newest of which is a study of the environmental conditions England in the 1340s.

Morgen Witzel is a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies, University of Exeter, UK. A writer, lecturer and consultant on business and management, especially on the history of management, he is the author of over 20 books and hundreds of articles for the academic and popular press.