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...read more

A new biography of the Norman king who conquered England in 1066, changing the course of the country forever. Of Franco-Scandinavian descent through his father Duke Robert 'the Magnificent', William the Conqueror's life is set against his true background, the turbulent Norman Duchy which, even after the Conquest of England, remained his primary concern. William is revealed as the brutal and violent product of his time, much given to outbursts of rage, capable of great cruelty, autocratic, avaricious and prone to a sort of grisly humor, yet, with all that he could also be a loyal friend and affectionate husband and father. His military reputation rests mainly on his victory at Hastings but he showed little sign of strategic or tactical genius. A competent rather than inspired general, he benefited from the mistakes and disunity of his foes. Only at Hastings did he meet and defeat a man who was his peer as a leader of men. William inspired great loyalty in some and even greater hatred in others. His primary attribute was his ruthless will which made him the driving force behind Norman ambition in North Western Europe, while his propagandists shamelessly manipulated the facts to justify his conquest of England, a dubious enterprise if ever there was one.REVIEWS "...did a splendid job in answering all of my questions.... a balanced view of William. He neither creates for the reader a hero, nor a monster. William, is a complicated person because of his polar personality."Impressions in Ink

Product Description: Harold Godwinson was King of England for less than a year and failed to defend England from William the Conqueror’s invading Norman army in 1066, an army that wreaked havoc across the country and changed the political history of England forever...read more

Product Description: In 1066, the English were conquered by the infamous invader, William the Conqueror. However, this is not the whole story—the English did not roll over and die before their oppressors; far from it. For over five years the English violently rebelled against the invading Norman people, murdering quislings, burning towns, and sacking cathedrals...read more

Product Description: The first major biography of Edward the Confessor for almost 40 years, written by a critically acclaimed historian, presents a very different interpretation of Edward's personality—not the holy simpleton, rather a wily and devious king of England...read more

Product Description: Harold Godwinson was king of England for less than a year and failed to defend England from William the Conqueror's invading Norman army in 1066, an army that wreaked havoc across the country and changed the political history of England forever...read more

After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction. Returning from Flanders to find his country taken over by the Normans, Hereward, embarked on a path of resistance. This work rescues Hereward from the myths associated with his life and career.

Edgar is the youngest son of King Edmund of Wessex. Although he became known as Edgar 'the Peaceable' he ruled England with an iron rod. His strict government was backed up by a naval force which deterred invasion by the Vikings. This work tells the story of a Anglo-Saxon monarch who became the first King of a united England in 959.

The first scholarly biography of the 'lost' Anglo-Saxon king of England.