I listened to
The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward, read by Nigel Patterson, and it was surprisingly lively and entertaining with lots of personalities for a short book that covered so much ground. A painless way to learn the basics about this period.
Now I’ve jumped ahead some four centuries to
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison, read by Chris MacDonnell. Unlike the Hundred Years War, where I knew the names of the major players and that’s it, the Regency is a favorite period of mine and I haven’t come across anything new here, but it’s interesting enough and the medievalist who knows nothing about the nineteenth century might well be beguiled.
