Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450

by Juliet Barker

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Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.

Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would put the crown of France on an English head. Only the miraculous appearance of a visionary peasant girl - Joan of Arc - would halt the English advance. Yet despite her victories, her influence was short-lived: Henry VI had his coronation in Paris six months after her death and his kingdom endured for another twenty years. When...

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  • ISBN10 0748122176
  • ISBN13 9780748122172
  • Publish Date 1 July 2010 (first published 15 October 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Abacus
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 512
  • Language English