The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453
by Desmond Seward
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Author: Desmond SewardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-08-01
ISBN: 0140283617
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: A very pleasant and fast reading of a long century
Summary: 4 Stars
This book offers a quick and reasonably short summary of what must have been one of the worst periods of european history. Battle after battle, siege after siege, French and British killed each other mercilessly for the control over the resources of France, the whole period under a code of behavior that today we have great difficulty in understanding. Towns changing hands quite often, alliances lasting the time of a battle or two, honestly the whole reading gives a sense of surreal dynamism, rather than boring middle-age immobilism.
Indeed some reviewers cite a rather speedy treatment by the author of some crucial battles, and this is the only minor criticism that I would make to this book. Certainly it triggered my interest in reading more and other authors about this period, but one thing is clear: this was all but a monotonous period of european history.
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