EARTH IN FLAMES: Saxons, Vikings and Normans V Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell
brings the latest in the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg , warlord during the reign of King Alfred of Wessex in recent years of the ninth century.
In this novel, the health of Alfredo eternally fragile, rapidly deteriorating. His successor is a young inexperienced, and the Vikings, who have so often seen how frustrated their aspirations to conquer Wessex, believe the time to attack the desired county. Uhtred
, even reluctantly, a trap the enemy and, in Farnham, inflicted on the Vikings one of the worst defeats. But after the victory, Uhtred will address both a family tragedy like the attacks of the followers of Alfredo , suspicious of his popularity and the treatment that the waiver of a pagan king. Uhtred
finally breaks with Alfredo, violates his oath of loyalty and returns north to the land of Bebbanburg , converted back to Viking. Etelfleda , Alfredo's daughter, married to a lord of Mercia that only aspires to be the successor of his father, is the only person able to get back Uhtred defend the Saxon cause. Uhtred is thus placed in charge of the demoralized troops Mercia, with which they carried out a risky bet that will end in a bloodbath on the banks of the Thames.
The land on fire is a splendid novel worthy of this great series is Saxons, Vikings and Normans where masterfully recreate a historical period English hardly known.
