The Hundred Years War, Volume 1: Trial by Battle

by Jonathan Sumption

Overview

A History Book Club selection

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812216554
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/29/1999
Series:	The Middle Ages Series , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	525,520
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 9.21(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Volume I
	List of Maps and Plans	vii
	Preface	ix
I	France in 1328	1
II	The England of Edward III	38
III	Gascony	69
IV	Crises of Succession	100
V	War in Scotland, 1331-1335	123
VI	The Failure of Diplomacy: The Threat at Sea, 1335-1337	152
VII	Grand Strategy, 1337-1338	185
VIII	Cambrai and the Thierache, 1338-1339	239
IX	The Flemish Alliance and the Campaigns on the Scheldt, 1339-1340	291
X	Sluys and Tournai: The War of the Albrets, 1340	319
XI	Brittany, 1341-1343	370
XII	The Truce of Malestroit, 1343-1345	411
XIII	Bergerac and Auberoche, 1345-1346	455
XIV	Aiguillon and Crecy, 1346	489
XV	The Siege of Calais, 1346-1347	535
	Abbreviations	593
	References	595
	Bibliography	628
	Index	643

Editorial Reviews

"In a balanced and seamless presentation, the origins and first decade of the Hundred Years' War unfold before the reader."

American Historical Review

"This will become a standard account of the War."

Choice

"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 rich book, filled with detail and incident, yet never losing a sense of the overall sweep of events."

Times Literary Supplement

Sumption's two splendid volumes have done a very condiserable service to the current study of history by restoring narrative to its proper place in the discipline.
—The London Review Books

Keen

"A superb narrative history."—Military History

"A rich book, filled with detail and incident, yet never losing a sense of the overall sweep of events."—Times Literary Supplement

"In a balanced and seamless presentation, the origins and first decade of the Hundred Years' War unfold before the reader."—American Historical Review

"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

"This will become a standard account of the War."—Choice

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