* Rare Hardcover * Divided Houses By Jonathan Sumption 1st/1st 100 Years War

                                             Author: Jonathan Sumption                                                                  

                                 Title: Divided Houses The Hundred Years War Volume 3                                                                    

    Publication: First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By Faber & Faber London 2009……. (See Pictures)            

A Rare Hardback Copy in Fine Condition in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Red Cloth Boards with Gilt Lettering to spine.Not price clipped and there are no former names or inscriptions present.Volume Three in the series and certainly hard to come by in Hardcover and in this lovely bright collectable condition.Book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Divided Houses is a tale of contrasting fortunes. In the last decade of his reign Edward III, a senile, pathetic symbol of England’s past conquests, was condemned to see them overrun by the armies of his enemies. When he died, in 1377, he was succeeded by a vulnerable child, who was destined to grow into a neurotic and unstable adult presiding over a divided Nation.Meanwhile France had entered upon one of the most glittering periods of her medieval history, years of power and ceremony, astonishing artistic creativity and famous warriors making their reputations as far afield as Naples, Hungary and North Africa. Contemporaries in both countries believed that they were living through memorable times: times of great wickedness and great achievement, of collective mediocrity but intense personal heroism, of extremes of wealth and poverty, fortune and failure.Thick 8vo 1006pp First Edition 1st Impression with Number Line to copyright page 24681097531 [2009] 

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