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'Compulsively readable' (
History)
, this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europe's strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. It traces the early humiliations and triumphs of Edward III: the campaigns of Sluys, Crecy and Calais, which first made his name as a war leader and the reputation of his subjects as the most brutally effective warriors of their time.
Trial by Battle is an account of the events of a pivotal period in both French and British history, from Wolfson History Prize-winning author and historian Jonathan Sumption.
'A new and immensely impressive history of the war.'
Daily Telegraph
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Maps and Plans
- Preface
- CHAPTER I: France in 1328
- CHAPTER II: The England of Edward III
- CHAPTER III: Gascony
- CHAPTER IV: Crises of Succession
- CHAPTER V: War in Scotland  1331â1335
- CHAPTER VI: The Failure of Diplomacy:  The Threat at Sea  1335â1337
- CHAPTER VII: Grand Strategy  1337â1338
- CHAPTER VIII: Cambrai and the ThiĂ©rache  1338â1339
- CHAPTER IX: The Flemish Alliance and the Campaigns on the Scheldt 1339â1340
- CHAPTER X: Sluys and Tournai:  The War of the Albrets  1340
- CHAPTER XI: Brittany 1341â1343
- CHAPTER XII: The Truce of Malestroit I343âI345
- CHAPTER XIII: Bergerac and Auberoche  1345â1346
- CHAPTER XIV: Aiguillon and Crécy  1346
- CHAPTER XV: The Siege of Calais  1346â1347
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the AuthorÂ
- CopyrightÂ