The burning land / Bernard Cornwell.
Material type: TextSeries: Cornwell, Bernard. Saxon stories ; 5.Saxon chronicles ; 5Publication details: United Kingdom : Harper Collins, 2009Description: 336 p. : geneal. table, map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007219759 (pbk.); 0007219741 (hbk.); 9780007219742 (hbk.)Subject(s): 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 fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Fiction. | Historical fiction -- 2009 | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.914 LOC classification: PR6053.O75 | B87 2009Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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(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.
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