The Hundred Years War. Volume 1: Trial by Battle

Trial by Battle by Jonathan Sumption is an enthrallingly detailed account of the background and first years of the Hundred Years War. '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. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Ca...