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The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302)
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The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302)The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302)

A classic of military history, enduring as the indispensable study of the battle and the foundation of all subsequent scholarship. This is battle history done at its best. Verbruggen has a talent for reconstructing not simply the course of events from contradictory testimonies, but something of what the experience may have been like for the participants. A model for the writing of a battle account... what distinguishes this book is the way in which Verbruggen married his knowledge of the sources to his understanding of the terrain.
 
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