The Hundred Years War Vol 5

Triumph and Illusion

Jonathan Sumption

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Faber & Faber
21 November 2023

History; European history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500

Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War. It tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI, when the battles of Cravant and Verneuil consolidated their control of most of northern France, until the loss of all their 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. It brought an end to four centuries of the English dynasty's presence in France, separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined. It created a new sense of national identity in both countries. The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come.

Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age: the Duke of Bedford, the English Regent who ruled much of France from Paris and Rouen; Charles VII of France, underrated in both countries, who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years; the captains who populate the pages of Shakespeare - Fastolf, Montagu, Talbot, Dunois and, above all, the extraordinary figure of Joan of Arc who changed the course of the war in a few weeks at the age of seventeen.

By: Jonathan Sumption
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 1.081kg
ISBN: 9780571274574
ISBN 10: 0571274579
Pages: 992
Publication Date: 21 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Sumption is a former History Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He is the author of Pilgrimage and The Albigensian Crusade, as well as the first four volumes in his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War - Trial by Battle, Trial by Fire, Divided Houses and Cursed Kings. He was awarded the 2009 Wolfson History Prize for Divided Houses.

Reviews for The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion

Sumption is bringing together so many different stories from so many countries and telling them with such close attention to detail that the chronicles of confusion become a trustworthy record of the time. - New York Review of Books (on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR, Vol II) This is one of the great historical works of our time. - Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph (on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR, Vol III) This is Game of Thrones history, with plenty of crazed kings, martial heroes, dastardly betrayals, silky clerical types and prisoners rotting in foul dungeons...It is difficult to see that anyone could do this type of history better than Sumption. - Guardian (on THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR, Vol IV)