Why did they lose?
Tom Shippey: Why did Harold lose?, 12 March 2009
The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
by Harriet HarveyWood.
Atlantic, 257 pp., £17.99, November 2008,978 1 84354 807 2 Show More
by Harriet HarveyWood.
Atlantic, 257 pp., £17.99, November 2008,
“... and the missions to Germany and Scandinavia – these are no longer part of the national myth. Harriet HarveyWood’s book in a sense restates and in a sense tries to counteract that national myth. Her view, expressed with some passion, is that the wrong side won on 14 October 1066: Anglo-Saxon England was more ... ”