Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 1 (one)

Sumption, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0571200958 / ISBN 13: 9780571200955

Published by Faber & Faber, 1999

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First edition reprint Very Large octavo paperback 672 pp. Illustrated with numerous maps and plans Very Good + condition i No inscriptions.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, Vol. 1 (one)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571200958
• ISBN 13: 9780571200955
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lighter Books
  • North American Topography

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Synopsis

'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

About the Author

Jonathan Sumption is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade, as well as his celebrated five-volume history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle, Trial by Fire, Divided Houses, Cursed Kings and Triumph and Illusion. He was awarded the 2023 Franco-British Society Literary Award for Triumph and Illusion and the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses.