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A brief history of the Hundred Years War : the English in France, 1337-1453 / Desmond Seward.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Robinson, 2003.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 296 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781841196787
  • 9781841196787
Uniform titles:
  • The Hundred Years War
Subject(s): Abstract: Its about as brief as one can get when talking about a war that lasts over a century without skipping any of the good stuff - from colourful characters and epic battles to finances and the peasants caught in the midst of power struggles. Aside from teaching you that people will go to war for anything, this book leaves you with the relief that you didn't live back then, an inclination to distrust a Burgundian Duke, and appropriately with the feeling that the war was just a huge waste of time and money. The war was a miserable time for everyone - near the end, even those who were once succesful leaders in England were eventually lynched for "treason"
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Originally published: as The Hundred Years War. London: Constable, 1978

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index.

Its about as brief as one can get when talking about a war that lasts over a century without skipping any of the good stuff - from colourful characters and epic battles to finances and the peasants caught in the midst of power struggles. Aside from teaching you that people will go to war for anything, this book leaves you with the relief that you didn't live back then, an inclination to distrust a Burgundian Duke, and appropriately with the feeling that the war was just a huge waste of time and money. The war was a miserable time for everyone - near the end, even those who were once succesful leaders in England were eventually lynched for "treason"

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