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Death of Kings (The Warrior Chronicles, Book 6) (The Last Kingdom Series)

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It was exciting, it was brilliantly atmospheric and the stench and sounds and hardness of the 9th Century were, as far as i can imagine, powerfully captured.

In this book, we get to see Uthred’s relationship with Sithric, Steapa, Aethelflaed, Alfred, and Edward deepens again. A series of contemporary thrillers with sailing as a background and common themes followed: Wildtrack published in 1988, Sea Lord (aka Killer's Wake) in 1989, Crackdown in 1990, Stormchild in 1991, and Scoundrel, a political thriller, in 1992. It is in fact filled with action, from a contested bridge crossing skirmish to raids deep into enemy territory, to scenes of slaughter and atrocities that leave a burning swath across the land and with a final battle that brings together, face to face, most of the pretenders to the throne of Wessex. So though there are many points in this series that I want to drag Alfred up from his bony knees from the cobblestone floor of a church and strangle him until he is nothing but a limp noodle in my hands, I would have to resist the urge and say. Uhthred of Bebbanburg will leave to fight another day, and eventually even claim back his ancestral seat in Nortumberland.Death of Kings, the sixth book in this series, and the previous book encapsulated the entire third season of the TV series, and it is difficult for me to not make any comparisons between these two even though they’re different mediums of storytelling. That should be left to men like Uhtred because only he can lead King’s armies to victory, only he can save the kingdom of Wessex.

Death of Kings is an outstanding novel by a master storyteller of how England was made – and very nearly lost.

Cornwell's strict Protestant upbringing informed the background of A Crowning Mercy, which took place during the English Civil War.

Death of Kings is an outstanding novel by a master storyteller of how England was made - and very nearly lost. Cnut was not dead, but his men were dragging him away and in his place came Sigurd Sigurdson, the puppy who had promised to kill me, and he screamed wild-eyed as he charged up the ditch, feet flailing for purchase, and I swung my damaged shield outward to give him a target, and like a fool he took it, lunging his sword Fire-Dragon hard at my belly, but the shield came back fast, deflecting Fire-Dragon between my body and Rollo, and I half turned as I drove Wasp-Sting up at this neck. He has stayed with Alfred, desperate to reap the benefits of his position enough to amass a war band to take back his home Bebbanburg from his uncle. The reason this joke lodged itself in my brain is because i was mid-journey through Bernard Cornwell's wonderful telling of the creation of the kingdom of England from the conflicting kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex, East Anglia and Northumbria and I was in the desperately awkward state of attempting to differentiate the varying characters whose names layer over each other and echo back and forth.His perpetual goal of recovering his rightful throne at Bebbanburg in Northumbria still lies in the future. Uhtred is not satisfied with the outcome of the battle because he believes that another attack will happen soon. We think of kings as privileged men who rule over us and have the freedom to make, break and flaunt the law, but Alfred was never above the law he loved to make.

After publishing eight books in his ongoing Sharpe series, Cornwell was approached by a production company interested in adapting them for television. The King told his two youngest not to grieve, that they should obey their elder brother Charles, the lawful sovereign. King Alfred (later known as Alfred the Great to us) is dying and is dead partway through the story, leaving the kingdom open to attack from different opponents, especially the Danes.If Charles’ popular and likeable elder brother Henry had not died young of typhoid it is unlikely that England would have been riven by the bloodiest civil war ever known. See images of James I and Charles I among the important collection of art and sculpture at Banqueting House.

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