"Future Publishing Disappointment" Topic

So the other day I perused one of the glossy Future Publishing History Mags:

1066 The Battle of Hastings

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Now, I have seen these before glossy, lots of pictures, looks like a PC game magazine (as expected from this publisher), obviously targeting kids and such.

Now while I applaud the effort to make the topics jump out at kids and get them interested in history, I am torn because the magazine appears to be full of Googled snippets of information and often they are flat out wrong in the history and facts.

The one I mention above describes how the Saxons did great damage to the Normans at Hastings with their longbows and how the longbow was a key weapon at that battle.

So while I like more publications about history and trying to reach out to new audiences, these seem to be filled with errors. Maybe not the best way to teach History?

Also, it seems like none of the various articles have Authors or am I missing something? Seems like a collection of clips off the internet with flashy pictures (computer generated) slapped together and sold for $20 USD a shot.

Anyone else taken a look at these?

Hi

They just need to add fire arrows and it will be totally Hollywoodie

No, Wackmole. You can't be really Hollywood without explosions--though blood and gore and explicit sex help, of course.

I've bought some of the Pen & Sword books and been very disappointed with the content. Even though written by a supposed academic two of them showed a level of ignorance of aspects of the subject that was terrible. Luckily I got them cheap so wasn't too upset.

The Saxons would have won if Mel Gibson had been with them.

Mel Gibson wouldn't be on the English side.

As a Saxon he would have prevented the conquest and reshaped the future so that future Britain would not be "evil".

It is the perfect plan. :)