He was besotted, and in short order, Sorel had joined the retinue of Charles VII’s wife, Marie d’Anjou. More than ... with both England (the Hundred Years’ War) and the Burgundians.
Two years later she sold the picture and it went ... House were both bombed by American aircraft during the Second World War. The hospital building, known as the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Esprit, dates ...
The things that made a medieval king effective also wreaked havoc on government. Good kings took up too much room: ...
Two years later, in the course of this activity ... To support the campaign, he personally advanced two hundred thousand crowns. Thus, the war resumed in the summer of that year, and the following ...
Two hundred Palestinian prisoners were ... with no bereaved families from both sides and the rounds of war that we’ve had in the past 75 years will eventually end.” ...
It was evidently not necessary to have a state to engage in violence, as the tribal warfare observed in the past few hundred years has demonstrated, but war did mean the emergence of a warrior ...
Donald Trump should heed Dwight Eisenhower’s advice, where he warned the US that the corrupting influence of the ‘military-industrial complex’ would distort every political institution and ...
Trump also appeared to blame Ukraine for starting the war, adding: "Today I heard, ‘oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years... You should have never started it.
Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns ...
Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns ...
Perfectly timed for the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, the fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption’s epic narrative of the Hundred Years’ War takes the story from Richard II’s death in 1399 ...