Nation in Conflict - the Battle of Hastings
Posted on Friday 5th October 2012







Further Reading
1066
(Paperback)
ISBN: 9780850529531
by Peter Marren
Only £9.99
If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. What dramatic changes of fortune, heroic marches, assaults by land and sea took place that year. This book explains what really happened and why in what is arguably the 'best known' but worst understood battle in British history.
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