![]() In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love, and desperate heroism. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. Please always check the price of an eBook before downloading Freebooksy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate. The Last Kingdom, like most of Bernard Cornwell's books, is firmly based on true history. There, in the horror of the shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance. And suddenly the fate of all England-and the cour. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. ![]() ![]() Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. The Last Kingdom Oct-2004 Book - 1 In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. ![]() He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred's kingdom. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. ![]() Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. ![]()
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