Desmond Seward dies

The agency is sad to report the unexpected death of Desmond Seward, aged eighty-six, an agency client since January 2001 and a full-time historian and biography for over fifty years. A writer across a wide range of subjects, who was both scholarly and readable, he had just delivered The Viking Olav Haraldsson: Norway’s once and future King

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Desmond Seward

Desmond Seward

Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Ampleforth and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books including The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders, The Hundred Years War, The Wars of the Roses, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry V as Warlord, Josephus, Masada ...More about Desmond Seward