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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.
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The Battle Of Hastings,
This review is from: Hastings 1066 (Osprey Military Campaign) (Paperback)
A concise and fascinating story of the Battle of Hastings and the events leading up to it. The book includes drawings of how the Normans and Anglo Saxons would have looked and includes several Battle maps describing the events of the battle. Photos of the Bayeux Tapestry and the battle field today are also included. Makes up part of the excellent Osprey Campaign Series of books. I highly recommend this book. Very informative.
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Very good overview of one of the English-speaking world's most important events,
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Osprey's "Men-at-Arms" series and "Campaign" series have been well known among students and buffs of military history for a long time, for their detail and accuracy. This one covers the opening overt act in the conquest of King Harold's England by Duke William of Normandy in the fall of 1066. It begins with the character and background of the two commanders and describes the geopolitical context, then examines the military machine each had to work with, the Saxon fyrd vs. the Norman cavalry. Then comes the preparations by William for mounting the invasion and by Harold for resisting it -- with time out, unfortunately, to deal with Tostig and Hardrada in York, a second front he really didn't have the forces for. And so we arrive the main event: William's landing at Pevensey and Harold's forced march back south to meet it at Hastings. And even then the final battle was a near thing. If Harold had had the men he had lost at Stamford Bridge, or if the northern counties had been able to supply forces themselves, or even if the Saxons had held firm and not gone whooping downhill after the Bretons, there's every likelihood that we would be speaking a much more Germanic form of English today. The book contains more than ninety drawings and photos, including clothing and weapons, scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, and battle sites as they appear today. And there maps and notes at the end for the wargamer.
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