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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.
The Hundred Years War Vol 5
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Release Date : 2023-08-31
The Hundred Years War Vol 5 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 2023-08-31 with France categories.
Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War. It tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI, when the battles of Cravant and Verneuil consolidated their control of most of northern France, until the loss of all their continental dominions except Calais thirty years later. This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation-states of western Europe. It brought an end to four centuries of the English dynasty's presence in France, separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined. It created a new sense of national identity in both countries. The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come. Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age: the Duke of Bedford, the English Regent who ruled much of France from Paris and Rouen; Charles VII of France, underrated in both countries, who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years; the captains who populate the pages of Shakespeare - Fastolf, Montagu, Talbot, Dunois and, above all, the extraordinary figure of Joan of Arc who changed the course of the war in a few weeks at the age of seventeen.
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
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
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Author : Robin Neillands
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Hundred Years War written by Robin Neillands and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A lively survey that re-creates the story of the Hundred Years War - the longest war in European history.
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.
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 Trial By Fire
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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 1990 with France categories.
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.