The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War.

What history records as the Hundred Years War was in fact a succession of destructive conflicts, separated by tense intervals of truce and dishonest and imperma

Covers the period from the Truce of Calais, in 1347, to the 1367 victory at Najera, and its aftermath.

"A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a

Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century, F