1066: The Lost Hastings Battlefield David John Barnby Pen Sword Military Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Year 1066 Is A Date In English History That Changed Way People Lived And Were Governed As Well Transforming Language Of Land Astonishingly This Book Finds Traditional Site Attracting Many Thousands Visitors Each Not Where Battle Was Actually Fought Death King Edward Confessor January Set Off Competing Claims For Throne By Norwegian Harald Hardrada Duke William Normandy Magnate Harold Godwinson Contentions Finally Settled At Epic Hastings Later Tells Compelling Story From Norman Duke\ S Crossing With An Army Included Large Cavalry Contingent Fleet Viking Looking Longboats St Valery On French Coast To Final Blackhorse Hill High Ridge Some Two Miles East Abbey It There Met His End When Surrounded Attacked Knights Closing Stages Addition Invasion Lindisfarne Until William\ Channel Events Leading Up Have Been Provide Context Our Main Sequence Told Here Relies Upon Several Historic Accounts Placing Carefully Matching Them Terrain Described Topography Area Painstaking Process Trial Error Accurately Place Author Has Made Use Satellite Imagery Previously Available Earlier Authors Confirm Location Old Cinque Port (First Proposed Nick Austin Secrets Invasion) Williams\ Pre-Battle Camp Analysed Relative Distances Eliminate Former Latter Far Known No-One Ever Considered Before Hoped Will Inspire Researchers Expand These Findings Σελίδες: 256 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm