Jonathan Sumption The Hundred Years War (Paperback) Middle Ages Series

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Hundred Years WarCondition: NewSubtitle: Trial by FireISBN-10: 0812218019EAN: 9780812218015ISBN: 9780812218015Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/28/2001Description: 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. In a humiliating treaty of partition France ceded more than a third of its territory to Edward III of England. Not for sixty years would the English again come so close to total victory. 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. Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, both printed and unprinted, The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire is the absorbing continuation of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 38mmItem Weight: 1007gAuthor: Jonathan SumptionGenre: HistoryBook Series: Middle Ages SeriesRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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