1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry
by Andrew Bridgeford | 
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
by Terry Jones |
Foundation
by Peter Ackroyd |
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
by Ian Mortimer | 
The Year 1000
by Robert Lacey | 
The Plantagenets
by Dan Jones | 
The Greatest Knight
by Thomas Asbridge | 
A Short History of England
by G. K. Chesterton | 
A History of Ancient Britain
by Neil Oliver | 
British History for Dummies
by Sean Lang | 
Queens of the Conquest
by Alison Weir | 
The Making of Victorian Values
by Ben Wilson | 
The Fears of Henry IV
by Ian Mortimer |
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
by Ian Mortimer |
King John
by Marc Morris | 
In Harm's Way
by Doug Stanton | 
The Great Halifax Explosion
by John U. Bacon |
We Will Not Be Silent
by Russell Freedman | 
The Roses of No Man's Land
by Lyn MacDonald |
The Secret War
by Max Hastings |
An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom.An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history.Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack; why the Normans, in some respects less sophisticated, possessed the military cutting edge; how William's hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unraveled, dashed by English rebellions, Viking invasions, and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors.This is a tale of powerful drama, repression, and seismic social change: the Battle of Hastings itself; the sudden introduction of castles and the massive rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class. Language, law, architecture, and even attitudes toward life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans.