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. 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. 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. 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. Urn:oclc:678678601 Republisher_date 20131213070426 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131207073748 Scanner first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. 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
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