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The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle (Middle Ages)

The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle (Middle Ages)

by JonathanSumption (Author)

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    Illustrated 1999

    $75.61

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    Paperback 2001

    $24.49
Synopsis

A History Book Club selection

$75.61

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 672
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 30 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0812216555
ISBN 13: 9780812216554

Media Reviews
Without any doubt, this book immediately takes its place as the best available account of this phase of the war... It is compulsively readable, in part the consequence of a lucid style and apt choice of detail, but mainly the result of a masterly overall grasp, acute judgment, fresh insight, and a compelling sense of immediacy that fully justifies the author's preference for a predominantly narrative approach. Throughout, there is a sense of a luminous intelligence working on the material. -History A superb narrative history. -Military History This will become a standard account of the War. -Choice In a balanced and seamless presentation, the origins and first decade of the Hundred Years' War unfold before the reader. -American Historical Review A rich book, filled with detail and incident, yet never losing a sense of the overall sweep of events. -Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
A former history fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire, The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses, and The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.