Illustrated with drawings by Jack Coggins. This is Number W-41 in the Landmark Books series. The Landmark series presents historic and biographical books for young readers, designed to hold the attention as well as to inform. Lives of outstanding people and topics of interest in American and world history are presented in story form with illustrations.

This highly factual biography gives an extremely concise and full appraisal of the events that preceded the Norman conquest, the conquest itself, and the years of unrest that followed it.