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1066: The Year of the Conquest

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Author:

David Howarth

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181992

The Wake

Everyone Knows The Date Of The Battle Of Hastings. Far Fewer People Know What Happened Next...set In The Three Years After The Norman Invasion, The Wake Tells The Story Of A Fractured Band Of Guerilla... Fighters Who Take Up Arms Against The Invaders. Carefully Hung On The Known Historical Facts About The Almost Forgotten War Of Resistance That Spread Across England In The Decade After 1066, It Is A Story Of The Brutal Shattering Of Lives, A Tale Of Lost Gods And Haunted Visions, Narrated By A Man Of The Lincolnshire Fens Bearing Witness To The End Of His World. Written In What The Author Describes As 'a Shadow Tongue' - A Version Of Old English Updated So As To Be Understandable For The Modern Reader - The Wake Renders The Inner Life Of An Anglo-saxon Man With An Accuracy And Immediacy Rare In Historical Fiction. To Enter Buccmaster's World Is To Feel Powerfully The Sheer Strangeness Of The Past. Paul Kingsnorth. ... It Is Written Instead In What Might Be Called A Shadow Tongue - A Pseudo-language By Combining Some Of Its Vocabulary And Syntax With The English We Speak Today--page 353. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 361-364).

Author:

Paul Kingsnorth

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95033

Harold The King (Saxon #1)

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Author:

Helen Hollick

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73785

The Battle for the Falklands

Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author:

Max Hastings

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27758

The Stormin' Normans

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Author:

Terry Deary

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155210

Hereward: The Devil's Army (Hereward, #2)

1067 -- The Battle Of Hastings Has Been Lost And The Iron Gauntlet Of William The Bastard Slowly Throttles The Life Out Of England. The Length And Breadth Of The Country, Villages Are Burned And Men, ...Women And Children Put To The Sword As The Brutal New King Attempts To Impose His Cruel Will Upon The Unruly Nation. One Man Stands In The Way Of The Norman Duke's Savage Campaign: Hereward, Warrior, Master Tactician, And The Last Hope Of The English. As Adept At Slaughter As The Imposter Who Sits On The Throne, He Has Vowed To Meet Blood With Blood And Fire With Fire. In A Fenlands Fortress Of Water And Wild Wood, His Resistance Is Simmering. His Army Of Outcasts Grows By The Day - A Devil's Army That Comes With The Mists And The Night And Leaves Only Bones In Its Wake. But William Is Not One To Be Cowed. Under The Command Of His Ruthless Deputy, Ivo Taillebois - Known And Feared As The Butcher - The Invaders Will Do Whatever It Takes To Crush These Rebels, Even If It Means Burning All England To The Ground. Here Then Is The Tale Of The Bloodiest Rebellion England Has Ever Known -- The Beginning Of An Epic Battle That Will Echo Down The Years. 1067 -- The Battle Of Hastings Has Been Lost And The Iron Gauntlet Of William The Bastard Slowly Throttles The Life Out Of England. One Man Stands In The Way Of The Norman Duke's Savage Campaign: Hereward, Warrior, Master Tactician, And The Last Hope Of The English. James Wilde.

Author:

James Wilde

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133064

Conquest (Making of England, #1)

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Author:

Stewart Binns

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168457

Knights of the Hawk (The Bloody Aftermath of 1066, #3)

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Author:

James Aitcheson

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235515

1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

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Author:

Ed West

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163239

Warriors

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Author:

Max Hastings

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