{"product_id":"southampton-and-the-french-raid","title":"Southampton and the French Raid","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a Monday afternoon in October 1338, French and Genoese galleys swept into Southampton Water. By the following morning, much of the town was ash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly seven centuries, historians have told the same story: a town that panicked and fled, a defeat without a fight. They were wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on evidence previous historians ignored or misread, it rebuilds the story from the ground up. Revealing a fierce, bloody struggle against a professional invasion force of thousands, and a young king desperate to blame someone for his own failures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivid, combative, and written with the pleasure of a scholar who has spent six years hunting down the truth, this is history as it should be, not the tidy legend, but the messy, fascinating reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Clausentum Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67090661245232,"sku":"9781919242743","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/southampton-and-the-french-raid","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}