'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.
Storočná vojna Séria
Táto séria sa ponorí do búrlivého obdobia storočnej vojny, ktorá zmenila tvár Európy. Ponúka hlboký vhľad do politických intríg, vojenských stratégií a osudov panovníkov i obyčajných ľudí. Čitatelia objavia strhujúce rozprávanie o konfliktoch, ktoré formovali stredoveké Anglicko a Francúzsko. Je to esenciálne čítanie pre záujemcov o históriu a fascinujúci pohľad na kľúčový moment európskych dejín.
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In the early fifteenth century, France had gone from being the strongest and most populous nation state of medieval Europe to suffering a complete internal collapse and a partial conquest by a foreign power. This book tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family.