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A History Book Club selection
Price: $95.00
Pages: 672
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date:
September 29, 1999
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780812216554
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, History and Archaeology
"A rich book, filled with detail and incident, yet never losing a sense of the overall sweep of events."
"In a balanced and seamless presentation, the origins and first decade of the Hundred Years' War unfold before the reader."
"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."
"This will become a standard account of the War."
"In a balanced and seamless presentation, the origins and first decade of the Hundred Years' War unfold before the reader."
"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."
"This will become a standard account of the War."
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.