About the book: 2015 / The war began almost like a ridiculous joke, almost like an excuse for a large-scale knightly tournament - and then they began to give their lives at this “big tournament” knights of two prosperous states - England and France. So what is the reason for the bloody armed conflict, which determined the vector of development of the whole of Europe for more than a hundred years? In the imperfection of the openly rigged French laws on succession to the throne? Is it necessary for a growing England to oust France from the place of “all-European queen of trade and diplomacy”? The famous military historian Gordon Corrigan offers in his famous and controversial book his own, absolutely original view of the events, without which there would be no Cressy, no Poitiers, no Agincourt , nor the exploits of Joan of Arc…