Julian Rathbone

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Described as 'the brilliant novel about this' which covers English Varangians in Constantinople. Tom noted it is 'full of anachronisms and stuff, but is absolutely brilliant on the sense of this is a seismic shock,' and that Rathbone cast the Normans as equivalent to the Nazi occupation of Poland.

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Mentioned as an example of novelists who have written about 1066, specifically described as 'a book on this' about the Norman Conquest