1066 and Before All That

1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England by Ed West

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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I doubt this book is likely to have a wide audience. It's a pretty good historical study into the 10th and 11th centuries with some notes as to how they affected future history but it's a little dry with plenty of facts but not much else. The author did his best to offer some commentary and some was amusing but overall it was okay but not great. That said, this is a fantastic book for authors. Almost every fact, and there was a LOT of them, could be twisted into a plot point or even a full story. There's intrigue, murder, violence (lots of violence), political marriages and plunder.



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