The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan
This book tries to be more than an academic history of the Anglo-Saxons. Despite the efforts, it slips into the boring trops of academic ancient histories. There are diversions into pottery and archeological finds. These are all nice in academic works. However, for a popular history, I would like more narrative and less pottery. The book would occasionally get on a role with a good narrative before falling back to pottery. I ended up recognizing a lot of the names from the times before William the Conqueror. However, I had trouble putting hte whole story together in my mind. We may be able to tell by place names, but it is still hard to grasp.
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