The Hundred Years War

I had just finished a book tittle, "The Hundred Years War" by Desmond Seward. Somehow the author was eloquent enough to interest me reading the history of the war between England and France. All began with the claim on the throne of France by the English royalties at that time. French being the more prosperous nation at that time couldn't stomach the notion that a poor nation England at that time to rule over them. Somehow when the war began, it clearly show that the English were a better fighters than the French. After the victory in Agincourt the English controls the theatre scene and conquered much of France.

This England control lasted until Charles VII rise to the French Throne and slowly but efficiently pushed the English back to their island kingdom.

Then I stumbled into the Wars of the Roses the bloody period in the House of Plantagenet between its two branches, the Lancasterians and the Yorkist. It lasted fro generations until Hendry VII married Elizabeth of York, uniting the two branches and also strengthen his own claim to the throne of England thus ending the bloody feud.

Why does this interest me. Somehow I look at history as a play a story that is even more interesting than fiction. All this is to be blame on George R.R. Martin for his 'Game of Thrones' book. If it is not for his books I may not be hooked to this interest. Now I am looking for a book by Dan Jones, "Wars of the Roses : Fall of the Plantagenets and Rise of the Tudors". This maybe interesting.