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Short Description for The Burning LandThe latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.
Full description- Publisher: Harper
- Published: 27 May 2010
- Format: Paperback 488 pages
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- Categories: Adventure | Historical Adventure | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780007219766 ISBN 10: 0007219768
- Sales rank: 5,467
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Full description for The Burning Land
The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity! First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel, the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex, that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom.
