-Sumption is that rare and precious thing: a serious, decent, honest thinker . . . and one of our finest historians.- Dan Jones, Sunday Times
-Gripping and eminently readable . . . a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative.- The Times
-Unsurpassed, and probably unsurpassable.- Daily Telegraph
In this final volume of his epic history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest, from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI until the loss of all of England-s continental dominions except Calais thirty years later. This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation-states of western Europe, ending four centuries of the English dynasty-s presence in France and separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined, creating a new sense of national identity
