Covering one of the most decisive battles in British history, this text contains eight maps which accurately depict the events of the battle as well as information on the commanders, armies and tourist information on the site of the battle today.
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Chris Gravett is a former Senior Curator at the Royal Armouries, Tower of London, and a recognised authority on the arms, armour and warfare of the medieval world. He has worked as an advisor for numerous TV and film productions, and has written many books for Osprey, including Warrior 1: Norman Knight 950-1204 AD. He currently works as a curator at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
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Very good overview of one of the English-speaking world's most important events,
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This review is from: Hastings 1066 (Revised Edition): The Fall of Saxon England (Campaign) (Paperback)
Osprey's "Men-at-Arms" series and "Campaign" series have been well known among students and buffs of military history for a long time, for their detail and accuracy. This one covers the opening overt act in the conquest of King Harold's England by Duke William of Normandy in the fall of 1066. It begins with the character and background of the two commanders and describes the geopolitical context, then examines the military machine each had to work with, the Saxon fyrd vs. the Norman cavalry. Then comes the preparations by William for mounting the invasion and by Harold for resisting it -- with time out, unfortunately, to deal with Tostig and Hardrada in York, a second front he really didn't have the forces for. And so we arrive the main event: William's landing at Pevensey and Harold's forced march back south to meet it at Hastings. And even then the final battle was a near thing. If Harold had had the men he had lost at Stamford Bridge, or if the northern counties had been able to supply forces themselves, or even if the Saxons had held firm and not gone whooping downhill after the Bretons, there's every likelihood that we would be speaking a much more Germanic form of English today. The book contains more than ninety drawings and photos, including clothing and weapons, scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, and battle sites as they appear today. And there maps and notes at the end for the wargamer.
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The year 1066 is perhaps the most famous date in English history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feigned flight, papal banner, shingle bank, mail coat, household troops Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bayeux Tapestry, Duke William, Stamford Bridge, William of Malmesbury, Caldbec Hill, Eustace of Boulogne, Telham Hill, William of Poitiers, Bishop Odo, Edward the Confessor, Harald Hardrada, King Harold, Cambridge University Collection, John of Worcester, Museum of London, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asten Brook, Domesday Book, Earl Harold, Earl of Wessex, Old Romney, University Museum of National Antiquities New!
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The year 1066 is perhaps the most famous date in English history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
feigned flight, papal banner, shingle bank, mail coat, household troops Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bayeux Tapestry, Duke William, Stamford Bridge, William of Malmesbury, Caldbec Hill, Eustace of Boulogne, Telham Hill, William of Poitiers, Bishop Odo, Edward the Confessor, Harald Hardrada, King Harold, Cambridge University Collection, John of Worcester, Museum of London, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asten Brook, Domesday Book, Earl Harold, Earl of Wessex, Old Romney, University Museum of National Antiquities New!
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- William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella: The Contemporary History (Oxford Medieval Texts) by William of Malmesbury on page 14, page 63, and page 77
- The Bayeux Tapestry by David M. Wilson in Back Matter
- The Battle of Hastings by Jim Bradbury in Back Matter
- The Norman Conquests (Documents of Mediaeval History) by R.Allen Brown in Back Matter
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton in Back Matter
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