The Burning Land

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The Burning Land
Author: Cornwell, Bernard
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Time Period: High Middle Ages
Time Frame: 886
Geographic Area: Europe
Country: Great Britain
Topics: Saxon Stories, Vikings
Genre: Fiction
Reading Age: Adult
Format: Novel
Published: 2009

The Saxon Stories
1) The Last Kingdom (2004)
2) The Pale Horseman (2005)
3) The Lords of the North (2006)
4) Sword Song (2007)
5) The Burning Land (2009)
6) Death of Kings (2011)
7) The Pagan Lord (2013)
8) The Empty Throne (2014)
9) Warriors of the Storm (2015)
10) The Flame Bearer (2016)
11) War of the Wolf (2018)
12) Sword of Kings (2019)
13) War Lord


World History > High Middle Ages > Saxon Stories

The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.

At the end of the ninth century, with King Alfred of Wessex in ill health and his heir still an untested youth, it falls to Alfred’s reluctant warlord Uhtred to outwit and outbattle the invading enemy Danes, led by the sword of savage warrior Harald Bloodhair. But the sweetness of Uhtred’s victory is soured by tragedy, forcing him to break with the Saxon king. Joining the Vikings, allied with his old friend Ragnar—and his old foe Haesten—Uhtred devises a strategy to invade and conquer Wessex itself. But fate has very different plans.

Bernard Cornwell’s The Burning Land is an irresistible new chapter in his epic story of the birth of England and the legendary king who made it possible.

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