"David Howarth is one of my very favorite nonfiction authors (no small praise when you consider that easily 80% of my reading for pleasure is nonfiction). The words I find myself repeatedly using in describing his writing style and approach to history are 'insightful', 'graceful' and above all, 'humane'. He was not only a war hero but a lifelong sailor, and so his account of the Norman Conquest and its effect on ordinary Englishmen stresses the ways in which events of that fateful year were determined by such mundane factors as winds, tides, and the simple inability to know what was happening at the other end of England at crucial moments. The narrative builds steadily up to a very moving final chapter."
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication Date 1981-08-27
Section European History / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Alan H.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780140058505
Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early January to the Christmas coronation of Duke William of Normandy, there is an almost uncanny symmetry, as well as a relentlessly exciting surge, of events leading to and from Hastings.
