Andrew Bridgeford, "1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry"
English | ISBN: 0802777422 | 2006 | 368 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
For more than nine hundred years the Bayeux Tapestry?one of the world's greatest historical documents and artistic achievements?has preserved the story of one of history's greatest dramas: the Norman Conquest of England, culminating in the death of King Harold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 Conqueror and the victorious Normans. But is this true? In