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I'm reading "Fire & Blood" 
and "La Guerre de Cent Ans" 
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So far (Fire & Blood) I think Aenys I was a weakling and a naive idiot and that Maegor and Visenya had a point.
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The Hundred Years War: A People's History By David Green. Doesn't seem to be biased going from the title and I'm enjoying learning about England and France's relationship with each other.
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I'm reading the same story by a French historian. He details the economics of war, the importance of Flemish markets and ports and the complicated feudal relations between the Capets and Plantagenets (with the King's of England being dukes of Aquitaine and therefore "vassals" of the King of France).
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That's what I consider it fascinating, especially how both countries developed militarily, ritually, and government as a result of the ongoing war. The Kings of France struggles to collect taxes to field out armies but slowly gaining more power to have a standing army, while the English were able through parliament as well as their heavy reliance on Longbow men.
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