Title: The Legend of Hereward
First published: 2007
Description: When truth and legend conflict, which becomes history? - England, AD 1066. When William the Conqueror turns his eye on wealthy English monasteries, the abbey of Ely finds itself an unlikely champion in the brave but unpredictable Hereward, whose resistance to the Norman invaders soon leads to murder, deceit, robbery, rebellion and finally open war ... A century later, a learned monk discovers the truth about Hereward as well as the legend.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Great Britain
People: Hereward (fl. 1071)
Time periods: William I, 1066-1087