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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 imperma

The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.

"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

'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 stron

Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.