I'll definitely be looking out for Howarth's other books. Rule of the Anglo-Saxons has just passed from a childless pederast to the. He wrote: 'Nobody has reported to us in detail the short harangue with which on this occasion the Duke increased the courage of his troops.' - and he went straight on to quote the speech at great length word for word.' David Howarth published 1977 24 editions.

David Howarth’s most popular book is We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance. David Howarth has 91 books on Goodreads with 41219 ratings. 'Obviously, nobody could really make a speech to an army, and the chaplain rather gave the game away. David Howarth’s most popular book is We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance. You might not agree with his point of view, but it sure is fun to listen to. ' was a more barbarous primitive man than either Edward or Harold, but he is not to be blamed: he came from a more barbarous primitive country.'īut it is this point of view, and this conversational tone that makes this book so enjoyable. He infuses the book with his own point of view, which at times can be borderline Francophobic. Howarth uses mostly contemporaneous writings (17 of his 20 sources are within 100 years of the Battle of Hastings) to decipher and tell the history of the battle between King Harold of England and William the Conqueror of Normandy.

It is a great storyteller's version of events as he understands them. He was the author of 1066, Lord Nelson, Tahiti, and The Voyage of the Armada. This is not a comprehensive history of the Battle of Hastings, and it is not meant to be. The book 1066: The Year of the Conquest, written by David Howarth, tells the story of how England was governed, organized, and how the common man lived during. David Howarth was a British officer and spymaster during World War II.

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