Lords of the North: A Novel (Saxon Chronicles #3)
by Bernard Cornwell
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Author: Bernard CornwellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 0061149047
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Book Review: Another Amazing Cornwell Success
Summary: 5 Stars
Bernard Cornwell has an amazing talent to pull you back into the smell and sweats, passions and hatreds, of long-gone eras, whether the Napoleonic wars, the high Middle Ages, or the late Dark Ages in this book, part of King Alfred saga.
As a woman, I flinch from the violence but he really puts you there on the battlefield. Goodness knows, I've never been close to a modern battlefield, but I'm sure this is how it must've been. I'm all for "peace," but we're never going to reach it if we go on pretending that man is an inherently placid primate and it's only evil capitalists or kings who make them fight. Men, or at least a large percentage of them, glory in combat. That trait is an essential component of all of Mr. Cornwell's novels.
Of course, the novel is pure fiction and he makes no pretense to historical accuracy in who did what to whom, but he evokes this chaotic period in England's history to where they were becoming an Anglo-Saxon country.
He also makes sure that the women are strong, intelligent and contributing members of societies that he recreates, though of course, since battles are the central scenes, it's always the guys bashing each other.
Summary of Lords of the North: A Novel (Saxon Chronicles #3)
The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the formidable Danish stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred's best hope is his sword, Serpent-Breath, for his only allies are Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and Guthred, a slave who believes himself king. Rebellion, chaos, fear, and betrayal await them in the north, forcing Uhtred to turn once more, reluctantly, to the liege he formerly served in battle and blood: Alfred the Great.
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