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050 4 _aDC96
_b.P74 2018
100 1 _aPrestwich, Michael,
245 1 2 _aA short history of the hundred years war /
_cMichael Prestwich.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
_c2018.
264 4 _c©2018.
300 _axix, 226 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
490 0 _aI.B.Tauris Short Histories.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index.
520 8 _a"The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In his vivid new history, Michael Prestwich shows that it likewise involved large and charismatic individuals: Edward III, claimant to the French throne; his son Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; wily architect of the first French victories, Bertrand du Guesclin; chivalric hero Jean Boucicaut; inspirational leader Henry V, unlikely winner at Agincourt (1415), who so nearly succeeded in becoming King of France; and the martyred Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc, thought to be divinely inspired. Offering an up-to-date analysis of military organization, strategy and tactics, including the deadly power of English archery, the author explains the wider politics in a masterful account of the War as a whole: from English victory at Sluys (1340) to the turn of the tide and French revival as the invader was driven back across the Channel."--Publisher supplied.
650 0 _aHundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
999 _c233839
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