دانلود کتاب King Edward III

Edward III (1312-77) was one of the greatest English kings, and his fifty-year reign was rich in dramatic events and vivid contrasts. He waged a fierce campaign against the Scots, and his claim to the throne of France started the Hundred Years War, in which the spectacular victories of Sluys, Crécy and Poitiers made the king and his eldest son, the Black Prince, into figures of legend. This was the age of chivalry, symbolized by Edward's founding of the Order of the Garter. It was also the age of the Black Death, the greatest catastrophe of the Middle Ages.No full-scale biography of Edward has appeared since Victorian times, and the present book is the only complete account of the reign of Edward III--it takes us from its violent beginnings as he avenged his father's murder, through the years of splendour, to his lonely old age and solitary death.