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1) A great and glorious adventure: a history of the Hundred Years War and the birth of Renaissance England

Author

Corrigan, Gordon

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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A military historian describes the fighting and the fighters throughout the span of the Hundred Years' War, which pitted the English against the French in a dispute over inheritance rights to the throne of France between 1337 and 1453.

2) Joan of Arc: a history

Author

Castor, Helen

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2015]

Physical Desc

xiv, 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm

Description

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"In Joan of Arc : a history, Helen Castor tells this gripping story afresh: forwards, not backwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one--not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes,...

3) Essex dogs

Author

Jones, Dan

Series

Essex dogs trilogy volume 1

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2023.

Physical Desc

455 pages.

Description

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July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives....

4) An alternative history of Britain: the Hundred Years War

Author

Venning, Timothy

Publisher

Pen & Sword Military

Pub. Date

2013

Physical Desc

ix, 228 pages : map ; 24 cm

Description

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Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?