The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle v. 1

Jonathan Sumption:

ISBN 10: 0571138950 / ISBN 13: 9780571138951

Published by London: Faber, 1990., 1990

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Bx2. A tight (probably unread) copy. As is usual with this edition, the page edges and margins have tanned. If it were not for this, I would have graded it as fine (see images).
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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle v. 1
• Publisher: London: Faber, 1990.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571138950
• ISBN 13: 9780571138951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 5.512W x 27.584H x 22.022D centimeters 5.512 centimeters width by 27.584 centimeters height by 22.022 centimeters depth
• Weight: 567 grams

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Synopsis

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 bitter civil war within the royal family were followed by the defeat and capture of the King of France by the Black Prince at Poitiers. A peasant revolt and a violent revolution in Paris completed the tragedy. In a humiliating treaty of partition France ceded more than a third of its territory to Edward III of England. Not for sixty years would the English again come so close to total victory. France's great cities, provincial towns and rural communities resisted where its leaders failed. They withstood the sustained savagery of the soldiers and the free companies of brigands to undo most of Edward III's work in the following generation. England's triumphs proved to be brittle and short-lived.