The core of the book is a day-by-day description of the campaign of July-September 1356, climaxing with an abbreviated account of the Battle of Poitiers itself. - New York Journal of Books
The capture of a king in the course of a battle was a relatively rare event. This, the climactic event of the Black Prince's first campaign as commander, came at the end of nearly a year of campaigning across the southwest of France.
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