(Most of the other principal characters-Ubba, Guthrum, Ivar the Boneless and the like-are real historical figures.) Young Uhtred, who's English, falls under the control of Viking über-warrior Ragnar the Fearless when the Dane wipes out Uhtred's Northumberland family. DOWNLOAD LINK - From Publishers Weekly Bestseller Cornwell leaps back a millennium from his Richard Sharpe series to tell of the consolidation of England in the late ninth century and the role played by a young (fictional) warrior-in-training who's at the center of the war between Christian Englishmen and the pagan Danes.
But an attack on him by a leading supporter of one of the candidates and an unexpected appeal for help from another, drives Uhtred with a small band of warriors south, into the battle for kingship-and England's fate.Advertisemen Download Free The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Chronicles Series #1) eBook PDF ePub Audiobook Uhtred was tempted to ignore the demands of the oath and stay in his northern fastness, leaving the quarrelling Anglo-Saxons to sort out their own issues. Despite attempts at pulling him into the political fray, Uhtred of Bebbanburg cares solely about his beloved Northumbria and its continuing independence from southern control.īut an oath is a strong, almost sacred commitment and such a promise had been exchanged between Uhtred and Aethelstan, his onetime companion in arms and now a potential king.
There are two potential heirs-possibly more-and doubt over whether the once separate states of Wessex and Mercia will hold together. It is a time of political turmoil once more as the fading King Edward begins to lose control over his successors and their supporters.
The twelfth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England-"superior entertainment that is both engaging and enlightening" ( Washington Post), and the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.
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