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Described as 'the brilliant novel about this' regarding the Norman Conquest. The hosts note it covers themes of English Varangians fleeing to Constantinople, and that it compares the Normans to Nazis in Poland. They acknowledge it is 'full of anachronisms' but 'absolutely brilliant on the sense of this is a seismic shock.'

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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