The year is 1346 and King Edward III is determined to pursue his claim to the French throne. Despite all his victories he has not managed to bring the French to a decisive battle. Determined to bring France and the French king to their knees he has planned a daring new attack. England the little nation with its puny chivalry so sneered at by the great French army is launching a fearful assault. A cheavuachée so violent so brutal and devastating that the French king will be forced to come and defend his realm. This is to be total war: war against peasant and freeman farmer and nobleman and no one will be left unchanged by it.