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If ever there was a year of destiny for the British Isles, 1066 must have a strong claim. What dramatic changes of fortune, heroic marches, assaults by land and sea took place that year. This book explains what really happened and why in what is arguably the 'best known' but worst understood battle in British history.

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Peter Marren is a writer, journalist and military historian. An active member of the Battlefields Trust, his book about Scottish warfare, Grampian Battlefields, was runner-up for the Saltire Prize in 1990, and he has written well-researched articles on medieval battles, including Lewes, Evesham, Harlaw and Tewkesbury. He is also the author of a dozen books on natural history, bibliography and rural life, including The New Naturalists (1995), Britain's Rare Flowers (1999) and Nature Conservation (2002). He writes regularly for The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Countryman, British Wildlife, BBC Wildlife and Plant Talk. Peter lives at Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire.

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