A look at the importance of war in shaping the lives of three kings, and the history of Great Britain.

The leopard or the lion : Edward I -- The proving ground : The war against the Scots -- Edward II : the incompetent king -- Counsel and consent : the development of Parliament -- The nobility -- 'Our just quarrel' : the Hundred Years War -- War, profits and chivalry -- Crisis and stability : the domestic policies fo Edward III to 1360 -- Plague, famine and war : the fourteenth-century economy -- The years of decline 1360-77 -- Genealogical tables I : the House of Plantagenet and its branches -- II : The succession to the Scottish throne -- III : The house of Valois.