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Invasion: The Forgotten French Bid to Conquer England Paperback – Jan. 15 2023

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The Norman Conquest in the eleventh century is one of the best-known events in English history, but the French attempts to invade England three hundred years later are largely ignored and misunderstood.

In fact, French invaders landed on English soil more than fifty times during the fourteenth century, sometimes accompanied by allies from Castile, Monaco, Genoa and Scotland. Each incursion was part of an overall strategy led by the French monarch of the time, and those participating were well-trained fighters and shipmen. They were certainly not pirates, which is how they have often been described. The incursions were brutal, involving murder of civilians and rapine.

Those along the invasion front responded and fought back, often surprisingly effectively. Determined English locals, organized into well-trained posses, sometimes bested the Continental professional fighters; although the economic damage caused by the raids was long-term.

In the later years of the century Charles the Wise and his great admiral Jean de Vienne made ambitious plans for full-scale conquest. The initial plans for the invasion were made at a time when France was engulfed by multiple crises, of which England was a prime cause. Whole forests of ancient trees were felled in the Seine Valley to build the fleet. Edward III and his son Richard II never were dislodged from the throne of England by the Valois – but the threat was real.

The fourteenth-century French invasion of England was not a single overwhelming event – such as Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – but a long-lasting process, sometimes intensely violent, which led to important changes to English society and had a profound and lasting impact upon the areas along the invasion front. This is the Anglo-French conflict that time forgot.

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Amberley Publishing
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Jan. 15 2023
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12.9 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm
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1398112445
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978-1398112445
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Duncan Cameron taught the History of Art before working for the British Council in the Middle East and South America. He has been a regular contributor of analysis to publications on international business and Bloomsbury published his most recent work. In recent years Duncan has also engaged in heritage work in Brighton and saved two buildings from destruction by developers by winning them Grade II listing building status. The study of fourteenth-century history has been a lifelong passion.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amberley Publishing (Jan. 15 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1398112445
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1398112445
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 233 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm

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Thomas S.

Detailed review of a little known subject

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2023

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This book covers a little known aspect of life in Southern England in the 100 year war period.
I am very pleased with it and I thank the author.

Mr. N. S. Beckington

Little known history well told

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2021

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Some of the editing is shocking and inexcusable in some parts of the book . When I saw that Odiham Castle (down the road from me) was stated as being in Berkshire I questioned the veracity of the book. However I was enjoying reading the book as the author writes in a captivating style and explains the events with clarity so I continued. Would highly recommend to anyone with a passion for medieval history.

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S. W. Trinder

Worst written history read since 1968

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2021

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This author doesn't know the difference between a military raid and an invasion. He disparages the idea of piracy on he coasts. He should read Michael Connors John Hawley: Merchant, Mayor and Privateer; Dr. Appleby's Under the Bloody Flag; Susan Rose's books.
He says very little about the raids on the coast by the French. I had to search the book to count them.
Definitely not recommended

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D.Chantrey

i am well into the book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2020

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Thankyou Duncan Cameron - This book is a must read - certainly I knew very little about this time
in our historical past. Duncan Cameron makes the reader feel page after page that they are
back in time -

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