![]() ![]() And that’s my one small gripe about this book: We get to know that swamp pretty damn well. ![]() The Danes overrun Wessex and King Alfred has to hide in a swamp. €œThe Pale Horsemanâ€, book two in Bernard Cornwell’s “Saxon Storiesâ€, picks up right where we left Uthred in “The Last Kingdomâ€. The Pale Horseman is a gripping, monumental adventure that gives breathtaking life to one of the most important epochs in English historyâ?yet another masterwork from New York Times bestselling author Bernard Co … ( more) But blood is his destiny, and when the overwhelming Viking horde attacks out of a wintry darkness, Uhtred must put aside all hatred and distrust and stand beside his embattled country's staunch defenderâ?the fugitive King Alfred. Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invadersâ?and he questions where his allegiance must lie. The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)â?the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.Īs the last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. ![]()
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