A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwellâs bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, âlike Game of Thrones, but realâ (The Observer, London)âthe basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.
Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the excitingâyet little knownâstory 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 Englandâs four kingdoms.
This thrilling adventureâbased on existing records of Cornwellâs ancestorsâdepicts 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.
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The Saxon Tales Collection: Books #1-4 - Bernard Cornwell
A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwellâs bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, âlike Game of Thrones, but realâ (The Observer, London)âthe basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.
Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the excitingâyet little knownâstory 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 Englandâs four kingdoms.
This thrilling adventureâbased on existing records of Cornwellâs ancestorsâdepicts 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.