Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time."Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction...

A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French state and a bitter civil war within the royal family...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleThe Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, and, most dramatically, drawn out struggle that laid the framework for the national identities...

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