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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> FOR MORE THAN NINE HUNDRED years the Bayeux Tapestry-one of the world’s greatest historical docu- ments and artistic achievements-has preserved the story of one of history’s greatest dramas: the Norman Con- quest of England culminating in the 5 death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Historians have held for centuries that the majestic tapestry-almost 300 feet in length- trumpets the glory of William the Con- queror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In 1066 Andrew Bridgeford reveals a very different story that rein- terprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. Reading the tapestry as if it were a written text examining each scene with fresh eyes Bridgeford discov ers a wealth of new information sub- versively and ingeniously encoded in the threads which appears to under mine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon England quite different from the Norman version of events. In the midst of it all is a mysterious French nobleman COMBE Eustace # of Boulogne