Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Battle of Hastings, was the bitterly fought clash on 14 October 1066 between the 10,000 strong invading army of Duke William of Normandy and 7,000 men of the English king Harold II. The Battle is the single most important event in English history, it was so critical a turning point that it marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon epoch. Peter Rex describes in a gripping hour by hour narrative the ebb and flow of the ferocious battle that changed English history forever. He examines the background the battle beginning in January 1066 with the death of King Edward the Confessor and the disputed succession between Harold and Duke William; the two key protagonists and ends with an assessment of both. He also tantalizingly picks over the evidence of what happened to Harold's body, lost for almost 1000 years, now the subject of a major archaeological search. The book is illustrated with 40 color images and 10 in black and white.