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Conquest

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What to expect

Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.

Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign that would put the crown of France on an English head. Only the miraculous appearance of a visionary peasant girl - Joan of Arc - would halt the English advance. Yet despite her victories, her influence was short-lived: Henry VI had his coronation in Paris six months after her death and his kingdom endured for another twenty years. When he came of age he was not the leader his father had been. It was the dauphin, whom Joan had crowned Charles VII, who would finally drive the English out of France.

Supremely evocative and brilliantly told, this is narrative history at its most colourful and compelling - the true story of those who fought for an English kingdom of France.

Critics Review

** 'Juliet Barker's new book is a magnificently readable account of the last four decades of that war, and a reminder that the reality was much nastier than the myth . . . Barker disentangles the dark threads to tell a story that never flags. 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
** 'There was a need for a good history of the failed enterprises of the English. Juliet Barker's book supplies it handsomely
Literary Review
** 'Barker's kaleidoscopic narrative of Henry VI's reign reveals the brutal realities of medieval warfare that lay behind the chivalric ideals to which the leading men of the time paid lip service
Nick Rennison, Sunday Times
** 'This book is as gripping as its predecessor
Independent
Author Juliet Barker
Narrator Sarah Durham
Duration 17 hours and 9 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405508520
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre European history, History
Availability AU, GB, IE

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