Cornwell, Bernard.

The burning land / Bernard Cornwell. - United Kingdom : Harper Collins, 2009. - 336 p. : geneal. table, map ; 25 cm. - Saxon chronicles . - Cornwell, Bernard. Saxon stories ; 5. . - Saxon chronicles ; 5 .

(The fifth book in the Saxon Chronicles series)

In the last years of the 9th century, King Alfred is in failing health and his heir an untested youth. The Danes who have failed to conquer Wessex smell an opportunity and Harald Bloodhair leading a Viking horde is led into a trap by the warlord Uhtred inflicting the greatest defeat ever suffered by the Vikings thus saving Alfred's Wessex.

9780007219759 (pbk.) 0007219741 (hbk.) 9780007219742 (hbk.)

2010362742

GBA964135 bnb

015301638 Uk


Alfred, King of England, 849-899 --Fiction.
Alfred, King of England, 849-899.
Alfred, King of England, 840-901 --Fiction.
Alfred, King of the England, 849-899 --Fiction.
Alfred, King of England, 849-899.
Alfred, King of England, 849-899 --Fiction.
Alfred, King of England, 849-899.


871 - 899


Historical fiction, English.
Historical fiction.


Great Britain--History--Alfred, 871-899.
Great Britain.
Great Britain--History--Alfred, 871-899--Fiction.

Historical fiction


Historical fiction
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Fiction.
Historical fiction--2009
Historical fiction.

PR6053.O75 / B87 2009

823.914