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122,865 - Total Helpful Votes: 19 of 19
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Anyone who has read the first two volumes of this monumental history will not need much convincing to open up this long awaited third instalment. I can quickly reassure you that Sumption's famed balance of meticulous research, readable prose, and plain good story telling is still very much in evidence.
It is a depressing period of the war for English readers, with the French resurgent under Charles V, De Guesclin, and their strategy of avoiding pitched battles. It is the story of repeated and expensive chevauches failing to find their enemy in the field and yielding little except disgruntled taxpayers and the taste of defeat, all the more bitter for those who could remember… Read more
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