Fought over English claims in France—both to the throne by right of inheritance, and to continental lands that had variously been Norman or English—the Hundred Years' War raged on and off in France from 1337 to 1453. The English won early victories at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt—rendered here in gripping detail—yet they could not secure their claims in perpetuity, and after a series of French victories, forever lost their foothold. Also the author of Waterloo, Gordon Corrigan brings the era's most colorful figures to life, including Edward III, the Black Prince, Henry V, and Joan of Arc, and reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations.