Conquest

Large 8vo. xvi (v), 485 (2) pp, preface, notes to the text, maps, tables, Part I. Establishing the Kingdom; Part II. Jehanne D'Arc; Part III. War of Attrition; Part IV. The Search for Peace; Part V. The Truce of Tours; epilogue, notes, bibliography, chronology of key events, acknowledgments, index. First Edition, 2009. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. ``The author tells the dramatic story of the thirty 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 place the crown of France on an English head. The appearance of a visionary peasant girl, Joan of Arc, was able to halt the English advance, but not for long."