The Hundred Years' War. The Main War of the Middle Ages

People who fought and died at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt had no idea they were living in the era of the Hundred Years' War. This war was conceived by historians; for contemporaries, it was a series of endless conflicts between the French Capetians and the English Plantagenets. On the French coat of arms - lilies, on the English - a leopard. Of course, it all started because of a woman.

In this war, reckless love, jealousy, courage, miracles, and betrayal are tightly intertwined.

The famous Russian medievalist Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya unfolds before the reader a three-hundred-year panorama of battles and diplomatic intrigues in her book, recreating the images of the main characters: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Charles the Wise, and Joan of Arc.