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The Norman Conquest (Landmarks in History)

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Neat but very much summarized telling of the battle of Hastings: its before and after; the warring parties, Normans, Vikings, Saxons; and the story of the Bayeaux tapestry. The color illustrations, I felt, were more representative and decorative than meaningful illustrations of actions that might have taken place in a historical sense.

I felt the book too short, and therefore too dense, trying to go over all the facets of the Norman Conquest of Britain in too little space: it missed the emotion of a good story and had too much of a textbook flavor. The few Osprey books I've read so far, all missed this important -in my view- ingredient for this sort of history books with illustrations, and that is the purely entertaining side. Maybe the editors think this part should be played by the illustrations alone. But I believe there's a wide spectrum of options to be covered between a comic and a textbook.