Customer Reviews
Superb stuff; not to be missed - By: Andrew Howell, 16 Mar 2002 
Trial by Battle is even more capivating than Trial by FIre. Sumption's text is a dream to follow, always engaging & thoroughly human. While I have always been interestedin the Hundred Years War I had never really appreciated the depths to which the French crown had sunk, a catastophe to equate with many modern day disaster areas..
Read this book! - By: judithf@aol.com, 09 Oct 2000 If you don't read anything else this year, read this book -- it is the best, the most comprehensive (and certainly the best written) single-volume history of the hundred years war for the general reader.
Readable, scholarly account of the 100 years war. - By: , 14 Dec 1999 
This is a highly readable & well written account of the 100 years war. It is detailed (this volume stops just after the battle of Crecy) - not boring - yet a well informed read. The opening chapter describing medieval Paris is great (especially if you know modern day Paris).The book gives you a very good feel for the machinations of medieval politics & the difficulties of campaigningin war.
