Medieval War Bows

A Bowyer's Thoughts
from Pip Bickerstaffe with an historical appendix by Richard Wadge

A really interesting book about English Longbows and dispells a lot of myth. This is a study of the available evidence of the bows used in the middle ages, based on practical experience of making, studying and using replicas made from the original materials. Pip examines the Mary Rose bows and arrows as a good source of evidence.

Richard Wadge details evidence from his researches into Equipment supplies and costs, Quantities of Bowstaves imported, why did archers join up, notes on the Battle of Agincourt;and includes his references to all his Historical sources.
This book is about Longbows in the Middle Ages, the bowyers who made them, and the archers who shot them. If you have always wondered about those archers of long ago, the lives they led, and the equipment they used. This book answers many of your questions.

Paperback, 88 pages and some good coloured pictures.