David Crane

The Hundred Years War ends in England’s agonising defeat – but triumph for Jonathan Sumption

His monumental history – the result of more than 40 years of writing and research – reaches its final volume, with the loss of almost all English conquests in France

The Battle of Formigny, April 1450, was a decisive French victory and destroyed the last significant English field army in Normandy. Illumination from the manuscript Vigiles du roi Charles VII in the chronicles of Jean Chartier, 1477-1483. [Getty Images]
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  • Triumph and Illusion: The Hundred Years War, Volume V

    Jonathan Sumption

    Faber, pp. 977, £40

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