The Hundred Years War, Vol. 1 - Trial by Battle

SUMPTION, JONATHAN

ISBN 10: 0571200907 / ISBN 13: 9780571200900

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 1 - Trial by Battle
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571200907
• ISBN 13: 9780571200900
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

This text 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.

About the Author

Jonathan Sumption is a former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a practising QC. He is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade, as well as the first three volumes in his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle, Trial by Fire and Divided Houses. He was awarded the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses.