Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire 9780571266593, 0571266592

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of

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Hundred Years War Vol 2: Trial By Fire
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'Compulsively readable' (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent ende

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Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his f

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Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol

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Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning tur

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The conflict between England and France in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimul

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There can be no doubt that military conflict between France and England dominated European history in the fourteenth and

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