Harold Godwinson

One King, Two Invasions, and the Battle That Ended Anglo-Saxon Rule Over England

von Eva Myers

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

He was crowned at dawn. He was dead before the year was out. And the world he left behind was never the same again.On the 6th of January 1066, Harold Godwinson was crowned King of England in a ceremony so hurried that the previous king had not yet been buried. Nine months later, he was dead on a battlefield in Sussex, and everything he had spent his life building was gone.But Harold Godwinson was not simply the man who lost at Hastings. He was the most powerful nobleman in eleventh century England, a political operator of extraordinary skill whose wealth exceeded the king's own, whose networks of loyalty stretched across an entire kingdom, and whose brief reign was cut short not by incompetence but by a collision of crises that would have tested any ruler who ever lived.Few people know that Harold faced not one but two separate invasion fleets in the same autumn, won a brilliant and decisive victory against the first, and then had just nineteen days to march his exhausted army hundreds of miles south to face the second. What you are about to discover will change how you see one of the most consequential moments in the history of the English-speaking world.The hidden truth behind the Norman Conquest is that Harold's defeat was far closer than history has been willing to admit.Inside this book you will discover the full story of Harold's rise from the son of a regional earl to the undisputed master of England, the political genius of the Godwin family and how they built power that outstripped the crown itself, the real story behind the disputed oath that William of Normandy used to justify his invasion, the brutal military reality of fighting two wars simultaneously in the same season, and why the Battle of Hastings came closer to going differently than almost anyone has acknowledged.This is not the story of a man who simply lost. This is the story of a man who very nearly won, and whose defeat reshaped the language you speak, the laws you live under, and the world you inhabit today.Whether you are a lover of medieval history, a student of military strategy, or simply someone who wants to understand how the modern English-speaking world came to be, this book will give you a richer and more honest account of 1066 than you have encountered before.

• ISBN: 9798185513712
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp