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 altogether. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father's land, the magical fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall.
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 has to decide which side he is on. 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. Urn:oclc:678678601 Republisher_date 20131213070426 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131207073748 Scanner 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 England's four kingdoms. Urn:lcp:lastkingdomnovel00corn_0:epub:9ff26f33-6c16-4f13-be7c-9b818f1819ba Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lastkingdomnovel00corn_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8w97m351 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780060759339Ġ06075933X Lccn 2004054236 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL23055766M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:29:57 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1110206 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīelvederetiburonlibrary Edition 1st Harper large print ed.
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