It is worth establishing from the start that this is not a biographical study of Edward III, for which the interested reader will need to refer to W. Mark Ormrod’s excellent Edward III, published in 2011. What, then, is it? This is not an easy book to categorise. Broadly speaking, we can say that it is largely concerned with English military culture and activity, the contribution made by war and its demands to the growth of fourteenth-century English kingship and society, and how success on the battlefield furthered (at least for a while) “the triumph of England”.The book centres upon a select group of knights, and on how they brought honour to king and kingdom and, not least, to themselves. At the heart of the society described was Edward III who, the author insists, re