![]() ![]() This thrilling adventure-based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell's ancestors-depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father's land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. ©2005 Bernard Cornwell (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. This is the exciting - yet little known - story of the making of England in the ninth and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of Englands four kingdoms. The time is around 800 AD when England was but a dream of King Alfred of. This is the thrilling but little-known account of King Alfred, his son, and grandson defeating the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms during the ninth and tenth centuries. ![]() He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. Ive read all the novels by Bernard Cornwell on which these five series are based. Download The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell Pdf book free online. The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred's kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. This is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. The first installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.
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