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Hereward trilogy #3
Hereward: Doom of Battle
The year is 1070. Four years after the Conquest, there is now only one centre of serious resistance to Norman rule left in the Camp of Refuge at Ely, headquarters of Hereward the Wake. The King and his nobles are able to throw everything they have against meanwhile, his entanglement with the beautiful Lady Elfthryth threatens his marriage to Torfrida. And so Hereward's saga winds its way towards the final chapter. The sequel to SONS OF THE WHITE DRAGON and THE FURY OF THE NORTHMEN.
302 pages, Paperback
First published January 13, 2012
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February 19, 2015
DOOM OF BATTLE concludes Marcus Pitcaithly's Hereward Trilogy. Having enjoyed the previous books in the series, I expected to enjoy this one as well and I was not disappointed.
This is probably the fastest moving of the three books, and it does not suffer in the least for it. Once more, Mr. Pitcaithly demonstrates a remarkable mastery of the period and presents his story in a highly plausible post-Conquest England. One of Pitcaithly's strengths is building his historical setting effectively without turning chapters into history lectures; brief, succinct passages fill the reader in on what they need to know of the politics or lifestyles of the period when and where they need to know it.
In the previous books, Hereward to some degree was rendered secondary by circumstances, seeking to further the cause of Edgar the Atheling as a replacement for William the Conqueror, or enlist the aid of the Danes in the re-conquest of the kingdom. In this novel, Hereward is himself the force to be reckoned with, and comes to the fore as King William, less distracted with other matters, can concentrate all his effort on destroying Hereward and his Camp of Refuge.
A fitting conclusion to the Hereward trilogy.
This is probably the fastest moving of the three books, and it does not suffer in the least for it. Once more, Mr. Pitcaithly demonstrates a remarkable mastery of the period and presents his story in a highly plausible post-Conquest England. One of Pitcaithly's strengths is building his historical setting effectively without turning chapters into history lectures; brief, succinct passages fill the reader in on what they need to know of the politics or lifestyles of the period when and where they need to know it.
In the previous books, Hereward to some degree was rendered secondary by circumstances, seeking to further the cause of Edgar the Atheling as a replacement for William the Conqueror, or enlist the aid of the Danes in the re-conquest of the kingdom. In this novel, Hereward is himself the force to be reckoned with, and comes to the fore as King William, less distracted with other matters, can concentrate all his effort on destroying Hereward and his Camp of Refuge.
A fitting conclusion to the Hereward trilogy.
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