Hugh Bicheno read history at Cambridge, and later joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He is the author of Crescent and Cross: the Battle of Lepanto, Razor's Edge: the Unofficial History of the Falklands War and Elizabeth's Sea Dogs.
"Compellingly told, this book brings late Medieval England thrillingly back to life in such gory detail you can almost smell the blood and muck * History of War * Fact-packed... with the help of maps, family trees, a ""who's who"" and various appendices the excitement of the story wins through. I'm looking forward to volume two' * The Battlefields Trust *"