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Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 2011-10-06
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 592/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hundred Years War Vol 2 by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 2 written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 2011-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 1990
Genre : France
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Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Sumption
Release : 1999-09-29
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 by : Jonathan Sumption
Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 written by Jonathan Sumption. This book was released on 1999-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
