Review: Druoun M, “The King Without a Kingdom”, Historical Fiction, (Harper Collins: 1977), tr Andrew Simpkin 2014
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The Capetian Kings are dead and John II “The Good”, who is anything but good in any sense of the word, is on the throne. As his arrogance, incompetence and vanity drive France from one catastrophic failure to another, the English take the ascendancy in the hundred years war and it seems that the church is the only barrier between the Kingdom of France and English rule. How will France survive?
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