A short history of the hundred years war /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prestwich, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2018.
Series:I.B. Tauris short histories.
Subjects:
1339-1453
Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453.
Guerre de Cent Ans, 1339-1453.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The causes of the war
  • The first phase, 1337-45
  • Crécy and Calais
  • Poitiers and Brétigny
  • Peace and war, 1360-77
  • New kings, 1377-99
  • English forces in the fourteenth century
  • French forces in the fourteenth century
  • The logistics of war
  • Agincourt
  • The conquest of Normandy
  • The Maid and the English collapse
  • Armies in the fifteenth century
  • Profit and loss
  • Chivalry and war.

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