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  Book Title: Conquest:
The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450	 	
  Book Author:  Juliet Barker
(Author) 
   Hardcover: 512 pages
   Publisher: Harvard University Press; 1ST edition (January 30,
2012)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0674065603
   ISBN-13: 978-0674065604
  
  Book Description
  For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of
France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that Juliet Barker
brings to vivid life in Conquest.
  Following Agincourt, Henry V’s second invasion of France in 1417
launched a campaign that would place the crown of France on an English head. Buoyed by conquest, the English army seemed
invincible. By the time of Henry’s premature death in 1422, nearly all of northern France lay in his hands and
the Valois heir to the throne had been disinherited. Only the appearance of a visionary peasant girl who claimed divine
guidance, Joan of Arc, was able to halt the English advance, but not for long. Just six months after her death,
Henry’s young son was crowned in Paris as the first—and last—English king of France. 
  
  Reviews
  Juliet Barker's new book is a magnificently
readable account of the last four decades of [the Hundred Years' War] … I thought Agincourt was a superb book, but
Conquest is even better. Once upon a time there was an English kingdom in France and Juliet Barker has brought it to
extraordinary life. (Bernard Cornwell, Mail on Sunday)
  
  The story is
worth telling and Barker tells it superbly well. Her judgements are shrewd. Her understanding of the complex politics of
the period is impressive. She writes in a spare, elegant style … There was a need for a good history of the failed
enterprises of the English. Juliet Barker's book supplies it handsomely. (Jonathan Sumption,
Literary Review)
  
  This is a tale of warlords and ruthless killers ... the ideals of chivalry
were left in the mud at Agincourt and this book is inevitably darker in tone than its predecessor. Still, a baffling,
tragic and wasteful episode has now been turned into military history of a high order. For England and Saint George!
(Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday)
  
  The story of how Henry V swept
all before him, how his relatives under the infant Henry VI bickered over his conquests, how Joan of Arc rallied the
French and how Charles VII won his country back, makes for engrossing reading. (Andrew
Holgate, The Year's Best History Books, Sunday Times)
  
  Juliet Barker takes the story to 1450 in
her compelling Conquest: The English Kingdom of France … which tells how England threw away Henry's legacy in a
sorry tale of lost battles, political bickering and financial mismanagement. Plus ça change, indeed. (Dominic Sandbrook, History Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph)
  
  England's
little-studied conquest of France during the Hundred Years War is absorbingly recounted by Barker...With her crisp
storytelling and meticulous historical research, Barker vividly narrates a tale of political intrigue and military
strategy that reveals power-hungry English kings and the fierce defense of France by one of its most famous heroines.
(Publishers Weekly 2011-12-12)
  
  Barker delves deeply into the world
of the mentally disturbed Henry VI of England, the indecisive French dauphin who would become Charles VII, and the
saintly Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc. She has produced a first-rate, fluid account of this little-understood period in
European history. (Brian Odom Library Journal 2012-02-01)
  
  Barker
weaves strands of contemporary evidence into a fluent account of a complex but fascinating era. There is a steady
succession of treaties, marriages, murders, massacres, famines, sieges, battles and skirmishes, but Barker has an eye
for the kind of detail that can illuminate the mindset of the long-dead. (Stephen Brumwell
Wall Street Journal 2012-03-07)
  
  A lucid guide to this very complicated period...Barker's
narrative combines high drama and low humor. It could be argued that both the origin and end of the English Kingdom of
France was a dynastic comedy of errors...Barker is both learned and lucid in bringing alive the characters, the struggle
and the ultimate futility of it all. (Aram Bakshian, Jr. Washington Times 2012-06-08)
 

  Barker weaves together the threads of an extremely complicated story, involving infighting among
English notables for positions in France, the major roles of Burgundians (creating essentially a French civil war) and
Scots in the fighting, and the double-dealing of many French leaders. The continuous fighting caused enormous
destruction and population loss, especially in Normandy, and very few participants gained honor in the struggle,
although Charles VII comes across here as a more effective leader than how he is usually portrayed. Highly detailed with
valuable information on the huge human and financial resources England invested during the war's final decades, the book
is nonetheless engaging and well written. (F. J. Baumgartner Choice 2012-08-01)
  
  About the Author
  Juliet
Barker is one of Britain's most distinguished literary biographers and medievalists and author of Agincourt:
Henry V and the Battle That Made England. 						

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