Description
| Product ID: | 9781841761336 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Campaign |
| Title: | Hastings 1066 |
| Subtitle: | The Fall of Saxon England |
| Authors: | Author: Christopher Gravett |
| Page Count: | 100 |
| Subjects: | Battles and campaigns, Battles & campaigns, Local history, Local history, Sussex |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Battle of Hastings changed the course of English history. Featuring a visitor's guide to the battlefield today, this edition contains new views of the battlefield and gives information on the best-known figures of British heritage. Osprey''s Campaign title for the Battle of Hastings, which was fought on 14th October 1066 between Duke William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson, king of England, and which irrevocably changed the course of English history. William''s victory ensured his accession to the English throne. Hastings was also decisive in another way: the horrendous casualties suffered by the English nobility both there and at the two earlier battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge resulted in there being very few men influential enough to lead an English resistance once William had been crowned. William would survive long enough to successfully found a Norman dynasty of English kings. |
| Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2000-09-25 |
