The book you're searching for, is in the middle, and huge building near Araj.
A lot of ""Musty Tomes"" is scattered on the floor. The book for the quest has a 20% drop chance, so just keep opening them until it ""drops""

There's two groups with 4 peeps guarding the building, so to get inside you'll have to suicide if you're below lvl 59/60 probably.

When you use a book, upon completing the ""spell"" one or two level 55 undead will spawn (they give you an annoying debuff as melee).

Starts the quest Brother Carlin.

Done as 58 Warrior.

I noticed that no one has said where the town hall actually is for this quest. It is the large building in the center of Andorhal, cords are aprox. 43,69. Also, there may be one mob or two, it seemed to swing on the flip of a coin.

I found the right book within about 10 minutes or so... even if you're on low texture resolution you can tell the difference.

On low texture detail, all of the fake books have solid sides, but the real book you can see stripes for pages.

Is it just me or does anyone else notice that the room she is staying in of the inn has only one bed, and yet she is there with a male blood-elf Jeziba.
Gossip?
Drama?
Romance?
oh yes.

The full quest chain for The Battle of Darrowshire:

• 1. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5142 Little Pamela
• 2. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5149 Pamela's Doll
• 3. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5152 Auntie Marlene
• 4. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5153 A Strange Historian
• 5. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5154 The Annals of Darrowshire
• 6. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5210 Brother Carlin
• 7a. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5181 Villains of Darrowshire
• 7b. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5168 Heroes of Darrowshire
• 8. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5206 Marauders of Darrowshire
• 9. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5941 Return to Chromie
• 10. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5721 The Battle of Darrowshire
• 11. https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5942 Hidden Treasures

Villains and Heroes do both need to be completed in order to get Marauders. However, https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=5211 Defenders of Darrowshire (the Uncle Carlin chain) does not need to be completed in order to get to The Battle of Darrowshire.

doing it as a 57 rogue right now, i found that if you stand as far away from the book as you can and still grab it, you can stealth right after its done ""casting"" and you dont have to fight the spawn then.

and when i came in they were all bad =(

Confirmed the grey-shade trick once again.

I probably looted over 50 books, knowing about this trick before I finally got one to spawn... This quest sucks lol, the summoned mobs don't give any EXP, their debuff sucks if your melee, and the double-ghouls can be rough if you aren't prepared.

They made this quest easier (as of 3.0.2). There are glinsters above all books now, the one with the smallest glinsters is the one you need.

If you look carefully at the sparkles coming off the books, the ones with the sparkles going high are useless, look for the ones that the sparkles dont go as high. 3 of the books contain the annals.

44.21, 69.19 is the coords of the building you are looking for.

It took my guildie and I about 40 fake books before we were able to get a good book to spawn. If you pay close attention to the advice here regarding looking for a smooth gradient on the open end of the book when the right one spawns you should notice it.

Keep in mind that whether you have to mouseover or not to see the difference depends on your screens gamma and brightness. My screen is bright enough that when I hovered over the books I could see no difference. But when not hovered over could see there was a distinct difference between the top grey and bottom white.

THE IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP IN MIND: The GOOD book may not be there when you enter. It may not be there for a few spawns. You may have to clear the room a few times. It may be even worse if you're sharing the room. Be patient. If you're sure you're the only one in the area. Consider going outside and killing things to keep your XP ticking up. The mobs that spawn from the books give NO xp.

Its in the large building behind Araj the Summoner. Coords: [43.53, 69.59]

Well, i think that this is a fairly easy quest (other than the books are annoying to open) I did this with a level 53 Human paladin, without suiciding, I chose the left side of the building (if you're facing the back of the building) as there were fewer other mobs sitting around, and had no problem taking the 4 level 55's sitting there (note paladins have special spells for undead, which i have macro'ed as well) i used my bubble, and didn't need to heal, so i think healers 55 and below should have no problem doing this quest without suicide, reguardless of the comment about 58-59 or less have to suicide the mobs, i'd say 57 of any class can take these if you know even basic tactics.
Stay with the books... i had to open 17 of them to get the book lol but hey, that happens. although.. it is kind of bad that the spawns from the trapped books give you exactly 0 exp.

Good luck questing!

codenamecng's is the best idea of all I've seen as soon as i read it I found it no problem!

Fallium was right on the money. Looking for the sparkles is the way to go. The sparkles are not as tall on the correct book. Look for knee high to an elf. :)

Wildhorn is totally correct. I went in there as a lvl 54 (after aggroing only one lvl 55) and got the book on the very first try.

Wildhorn's comment is very good! thankyou, did it as a rogue and before using Wildhorns theory i vanished after i'd opened a book. Its at times like these you wish every race had vanish! Oh and look for the 'x' on the spine of the book, also works.

Drop rate seems to be pretty low. I opened all the books and didn't find the quest item.

Edit: opened all the books again, and no Annal.

Ok I have been working on this quest forever but I accidentaly made a discovery...

If you have and only if you have the questhelper addon just put your mouse over all the books whatever one says open this and you'll get The Annals of Darrowshire is the real one.

The fake ones do not do this!

very easy to find the real book even with no mods, just move your pointer on the books:

Fake books: Musty tome.

Real book: musty tome, the anal of darrowshire 0/1

Its seems that they *fixed* the white/grey-half theory
What I did notice was that the right book is slightly different from the others,
the outer casing (dont know the right word) is blue just like all others,
but the pages are more yellow, and thicker, you can see the different pages.
Itcomes to this => the pages look older

Hope this helps some of you

Today when I was doing this quest I noticed that the in-game quest tracker will actually tell you which tome is real. All of the fake tomes will simply be called ""Musty Tome"", but the real one will also have underneath it the quest tracker text (The Annals of Darrowshire: 0/1) as well as being called ""Musty Tome""

Why is Chromie letting us change Joseph's fate?

Especially when in the Culling of Stratholme instance, she sends us to make sure Arthas slaughters all the people of Stratholme?

Just... read properly the name of this quest...
http://www.wowbash.com//image-10914.html One player couldn't make it.

I can confirm both of these clues are still available.

Easiest to spot the sparkle difference for a distance - probably waist high on a human. The sparkles on incorrect books go close to the height of the ceiling.

Looking at one end of the book, it's easy to see the difference in page colour. However, not as easy to spot on a mouse-over.

I had to open 4 books to get the correct one to spawn.

Just in case you are going crazy trying to identify which one is the real one by looking at the shading differences....there is a chance that NONE of the books currently spawned are the real one.

In fact I just cleared the entire room TWICE and haven't gotten the real one yet; very annoying.

Edit: *sigh* Make that three clears and no book yet...

Edit 2: It finally decided to show up on the fifth clear.

VERY HELPFUL WILDHORN.
went thorough about ten books thinking i was just unlucky, but u were right. very good hint.

With the relatively new built in quest helper, only the real one will have the quest information when you mouse over it

Lol i tried ages with the X on the bind and the white/black pages trick and kept getting in fights and it turned out the right one says musty tome annals of darrowshire while the rest just say musty tome........I feel retarded for only noticing that now lol

Easy quest as a lvl 55 druid. Prowl in, find the book with the X on the spine (it was the one closest to the door btw) an prowl out. Easy XP. Also, the X is very faint, kinda hard to see.

I just got sooo lucky with this quest, I was standing beside the building and suddenly someone distracted them,and they started running towards him/her, meanwhile I got inside and took the annals :))
lvl 56 human mage

Just did this as a lvl 54 druid. Prowled in, grabbed the book, prowled out. Didn't aggro anything. The comments helped for finding the right book. I noticed when you point at the right book Questhelper tells you that the book has the item.

I picked up 14 ruined tomes before I finally got The Annals of Darrowshire. Be patient... :D

There's NO WAY to tell... Quest ABANDONED.... they can shove this one where the sun don't shine. It's very annoying and not worth doing anymore. There's way better ways to get experience.