Sean McGlynn

Blood Cries Afar

The Forgotten Invasion of England 1216

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Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on England. This time the invasion force was under the command of Louis the Lion, son and heir of the powerful French king Philip Augustus. Taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by the civil war over Magna Carta and by King John's disastrous rule, Prince Louis and his army of French soldiers and mercenaries allied with the barons of the English rebel forces. The prize was England itself.The invasion was one of the most dramatic ep… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7524-9251-3
EAN: 9780752492513
Produktnummer: 14825007
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 6'356 KB

Über den Autor

Sean McGlynn is the author of By Sword and Fire: Cruelty and Atrocity in Medieval Warfare and is a regular contributor to history magazines and academic journals such as History Today, BBC History and English Historical Review. He was a history tutor at the University of Bath, is Honorary Lecturer at the Department of HIstorical Studies at the University of Bristol, lecturing on Alfred the Great and King Joh: Contemporary Sources and Historical Reputations, and has a Masters from King's College, London.