The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince

This volume gathers fourteenth-century letters, campaign diaries, and chronicle extracts about Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, together with the Chandos Herald's later Life. The pieces follow the Crecy campaign of 1346, the chevauchees in France, the capture of King John at Poitiers, and the Castilian expedition that ended at Najera, as companions report marches, plunder, and fatigue. The prince appears as commander in Aquitaine rather than as a private person. The book is a dossier of contemporary testimony, not a modern single-author biography.

Bound in red cloth with silver and black blocked designs on the spine and cover, silver on black spine title label.