Medieval Warfare

Get out your trebuchet, slip on your armor and guard your castle; it’s time to go back to war—way back! Packed with massive medieval battle reconstructions, this three-disc set employs countless weapons to entertain and inform. Vivid images, paintings, graphics and maps plus expert insights about weapons, strategies and tactics reveal three key events in the history of medieval warfare. The Crusades depicts spectacular battles that recount the bitter and bloody dramatic conflict between Christianity and Islam, including Richard the Lionheart’s struggle with Emperor Saladin on the burning sands of Palestine. In Agincourt, Henry V’s outnumbered English troops confront a mighty French army in a day of intense surprise and savagery. Wars of the Roses displays the lethal fi fteenthcentury struggle for power between the House of York and the House of Lancaster that culminated in a ferocious encounter on Bosworth Field in 1485—a clash that saw the death of King Richard III. Includes commentary by Dr. David Chandler, a leading military authority and editor of the Oxford History of the British Army.