From the back cover:
On 14 October 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, crushed Harold and the Saxon army, a victory which gained him the English crown. That great mediaeval campaign has been reconstructed in detail : recounted precisely from the landing at Pevensey to the final victory. Sequences from the Bayeux Tapestry, photographs from the re-enactment carried out on 14 October 2000 at Hastings and archaeological finds from the 11th century have all been used to permit as accurate as possible a representation of the equipment of the period and the course of the operations. This work is an exceptional educational document.