I've actually started reading this series, by mistake, from the eighth book, than returned to this, the first title. This series is two spears up.Ĭornwell is becoming my current best favorite author Realistic without crossing the line to phantasmagoria. Battles are with sword, axe, lance, and shield. The antagonists cum protagonists and visa versa are Danes and Northerners, invading England for plunder. The era is the 9th century…the setting is England. The novels are filled with battles, intrigue, double-cross and blackmail. The time period is the same, as is the character focus. These books seem to be the basis for the "Irish-Canadian historical drama television series (see Wiki)," Vikings. You finish up with two more decent narrators that do a good job of holding the tension.
An interlude then comes with the adequate, Tom Sellwood, followed by Keeble and John Lee. Jonathan Keeble is fantastic in the first two books. However, they are available if you switch narrators. There are several narrators and gaps in the series links. You will have to do the usual hunt and peck to find all the novels in the series. 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 England's four kingdoms. 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.
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