Battle Trilogy

Michael Livingston’s Battle Trilogy comprises three revisionist studies of major medieval engagements: Brunanburh in 937, Crécy in 1346 and Agincourt in 1415. Each book reconstructs a campaign and battle through chronicles, documentary records, terrain and material evidence, while also examining how later memory turned uncertain and complicated events into national legends.

The sequence is linked by Livingston’s method rather than by a continuous chronology. Never Greater Slaughter investigates the formation of England and the search for Brunanburh; Crécy uses fieldwork and technology to challenge an accepted battlefield site; and Agincourt reassesses both the ground and the heroic tradition surrounding Henry V. Livingston described these three Osprey volumes as an unintended trilogy in 2023.