The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Chronicles Series #2)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061144835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways. The second 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 television series.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.At the end of The Last Kingdom, The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England’s four kingdoms—and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes. But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred’s life, he is forced to consider feelings he’s never confronted before—and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his n
It's A.D. Logically, Uhtred should now ally himself with Alfred, whose Wessex kingdom alone has successfully resisted Danish control. Filled with bawdy humor, bloodlust, treachery and valor, this stirring tale will leave readers eager for the next volume in this Alfred the Great series. All rights reserved. . His Celtic mistress foretells victory for Alfred, but Uhtred can scarcely believe that the bedraggled king, camped in isolated marshes with a handful of supporters, can repel the invaders and unite England. 877, and the dispossessed Northumbrian noble Uhtred has just routed the Danes in a battle at Cynuit in southern England. But Uhtred sees a better chance of recovering his lost estate if he finds a way to join the Danes, who raised him and whose simple life of "ale, women, sword, and reputation" he fin
This is the 'mention God and priest every paragraph' book and you'll have enough pages! It's like grammar school all over again Got tired of the inanity that is Alfred and the most ridiculous jumping back and forth, from side-to-side by the narrator- depending how the wind blew - made this a shadow of the first book in this series.Also, even though I know the priests were up everybody's rectum since the beginning of. "A well written story of King Alfred's fight to retain his kingdom" according to Michael E. Farrell. An excellent sequel to "The Last Kingdom", chronicalling the continuing wars on English King Alfred the Great against the Danish invaders in the late 9th century. The story is told through Uhtred, a Saxon warrior from Northumbria who's lands have already been taken by the Danes.A well writt. A great read! Mark Albertson While it might not be George RR Martin-worthy, I am truly enjoying the Saxon Tales books. I would put them in the genre of historical fiction, as, unlike Martin's writing, Cornwell's books are set in accurate historical context in what was soon to become England in the late 1400's. Cornwell