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The Hundred Years War Volume 4
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-03-28
The Hundred Years War Volume 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with History categories.
The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.
The Hundred Years War Volume 1
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1999-09-29
The Hundred Years War Volume 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-29 with History categories.
What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and impermanent peace treaties, and one of the central events in the history of England and France. It laid the foundations of France's national consciousness, even while destroying the prosperity and political preeminence which France had once enjoyed. It formed the nation's institutions, creating the germ of the absolute state of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In England, it brought intense effort and suffering, a powerful tide of patriotism, great fortune succeeded by bankruptcy, disintegration, and utter defeat. The war also brought turmoil and ruin to neighboring Scotland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Hundred Years War Vol 4
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Release Date : 2016-07-07
Hundred Years War Vol 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by Faber & Faber Non Fiction this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-07 with British categories.
Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. It had never happened before in the country's history - and it would not happen again until 1940. Into the void left by this domestic catastrophe, strode one of the most remarkable rulers of the age, Henry V of England, the victor of Agincourt, who conquered much of northern France before dying at the age of thirty-six, just two months before he would have become King of France. Following on from Divided Houses (winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Hessel-Tiltman), Cursed Kings is the magisterial new chapter in 'one of the great historical works of our time' (Allan Massie).
The Hundred Years War Trial By Fire
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Hundred Years War Trial By Fire written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
"A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A peasant revolt and a violent revolution in Paris completed the tragedy ... Yet the theme of the volume is not destruction, but survival. France's great cities, provincial towns, and rural communities resisted where its leaders failed. They withstood the sustained savagery of the soldiers and the free companies of brigands to undo most of Edward III's work in the following generation. England's triumphs proved to be brittle and short-lived"--Jacket.
The Hundred Years War Volume 2
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1991
The Hundred Years War Volume 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
The Hundred Years War Divided Houses
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Hundred Years War Divided Houses written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 categories.
Hundred Years War Vol 1
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-05-05
Hundred Years War Vol 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-05 with History categories.
'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. It traces the early humiliations and triumphs of Edward III: the campaigns of Sluys, Crecy and Calais, which first made his name as a war leader and the reputation of his subjects as the most brutally effective warriors of their time. Trial by Battle is an account of the events of a pivotal period in both French and British history, from Wolfson History Prize-winning author and historian Jonathan Sumption. 'A new and immensely impressive history of the war.' Daily Telegraph
Hundred Years War Vol 2
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Hundred Years War Vol 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Art categories.
In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king.
A Brief History Of The Hundred Years War
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Author : Desmond Seward
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-25
A Brief History Of The Hundred Years War written by Desmond Seward and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with History categories.
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious victories as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, but then the English run of success began to fail, and in four short years she lost Normandy and finally her last stronghold in Guyenne. The protagonists of the Hundred Year War are among the most colourful in European history: for the English, Edward III, the Black Prince and Henry V, later immortalized by Shakespeare; for the French, the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London, Charles V, who very nearly overcame England and the enigmatic Charles VII, who did at last drive the English out.
The Hundred Years War
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Author : Anne Curry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-25
The Hundred Years War written by Anne Curry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-25 with History categories.
An illustrated overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages. There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Hundred Years War is of considerable interest both because of its duration and the number of theatres in which it was fought. Drawing on the latest research for this new edition, Hundred Years War expert Professor Anne Curry examines how the war can reveal much about the changing nature of warfare: the rise of infantry and the demise of the knight; the impact of increased use of gunpowder and the effect of the war on generations of people. Updated and revised for the new edition, with full-colour maps and 50 new images, this illustrated introduction provides an important reference resource for the academic or student reader as well as those with a general interest in late medieval warfare.