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First hand reports from warriorsSword in hand
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The Battle of Cressy --- FroissartThe Hundred Years War lasted a hundred and sixteen years. This was the first big battle in it. A tale right full of valiant knights and raped damsels, crossbowmen, longbowmen, doughty wights and vile varlets. Written by a famous Frenchman who interviewed the very guys who fought there.
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The Battle of Poitiers --- FroissartDo you like sword fight movies? Heroic knights in shining armor, filthy rich dukes and earls, the bad baron, the sly cardinal, the regal king, the patient squire? Did you ever wonder how it really was? Here it is. The way it really was.
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Pirates! --- EsquemelingHoly Cow! Pirates! They guys who every boy dreams of. The guys who everyone dreads. Written, not by Hollywood, but by a Dutchman who actually sailed with Morgan. This is no fantasy. This is life and death desperation. Here it is. The way it really was.
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Desert Storm --- Xenophon400 years before Christ was born, and well over a thousand years before Mohammed was born, an allied army of free men from western democracies invaded Iraq. This was the first Desert Storm.
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