Saxon Tales Collection: Books #1-4

A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwells bestselling series 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.This ebook collection includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.

A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series 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. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.

Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the exciting?yet little known?story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.

This thrilling adventure?based on existing records of Cornwell's ancestors?depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.

?History comes alive.??Boston Globe

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BERNARD CORNWELL is the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series, which includes The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and, most recently, The Empty Throne, and which serves as the basis for the hit television series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.