The Hundred Years War Trial By Fire

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218015
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 706 pages. 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
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ISBN 13 : 9780812235272
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire written by Jonathan Sumption and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 680 pages. 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
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216554
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-09-29 with total page 676 pages. 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.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266592
Total Pages : 1263 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 2 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 1263 pages. 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
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ISBN 13 : 9780571138951
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266584
Total Pages : 1221 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hundred Years War Vol 1 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 1221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812223888
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Years War, Volume 4 written by Jonathan Sumption and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.

Author : Jonathan Sumption
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ISBN 13 : 9780571138951
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Hundred Years War: Trial by fire written by Jonathan Sumption and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Page Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9780140122619
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trial by Fire written by Page Smith and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of a multi-volume history of the United States from 1861 to 1874.

Author : Josephine Angelini
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250064252
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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