Ian W. Walker for Alan Sutton This is a useful and well-informed history of Harold that is also well written. Its weak-spot (as is common in this era) is that the author must guess what it likely in the circumstances. As these circumstances can change from the question of personal relationships to the likelihood of the eaorls believing one thing over another they are very dependent on the author's judgement. I found myself unpersuaded by some of this, but Walker's method is solid and he is open in his views. There are some very useful maps of the Earldoms. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Dervish St Bartholomew's Eve The Vietnam War El Alamein 1943 The Victory That Never Was Crete: The Battle and the Resistance The Imperial War Museum Book of The Somme The Spanish Civil War Armies of The 19th Century Asia: China The Russian Civil War Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier & Tyrant The Battle for Normandy The Siege of Vienna Vimy! The Great Boer War Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #102 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com