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The Hundred Years War

Trial by Fire
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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. Yet the theme of the volume is not destruction, but survival. 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. Based on a wide range of contemporary sources, both printed and unprinted, The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire is the absorbing continuation of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War.
A former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade.
The second volume of Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War. "This will become the standard account of the War."--Choice "A classic of sharp scholarship and dust-dispelling energy... Throughout his vigorous narrative, Sumption displays an effortless command of sources."--Times Literary Supplement "Sumption is bringing together so many different stories from so many countries and telling them with such close attention to detail that the chronicles of confusion become a trustworthy record of the time."--New York Review of Books "A superb narrative history."--Military History
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