The Last Kingdom · Book 6
Death of Kings
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 357
- ISBN-13
- 9780007331789
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of Kings (2011, 357 pages) is the sixth novel in The Last Kingdom, arriving as Alfred the Great's reign moves toward its end. Uhtred -- the pagan-hearted Northumbrian warrior torn between the Danes who raised him and the Saxon birthright he means to reclaim at Bebbanburg -- remains the series' narrator throughout this stretch of the fifty-year fight for England.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
Death of Kings is book 6 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Burning Land. It is followed by The Pagan Lord. See the full The Last Kingdom reading order.
The Last Kingdom (published in the UK as The Saxon Stories, then The Warrior Chronicles) is Bernard Cornwell's account of the making of England, narrated by Uhtred of Bebbanburg — a Northumbrian nobleman's son captured and raised by Vikings as a boy, who grows up caught between two loyalties: the Danes who taught him to fight and love, and the Saxon kingdoms of his birth. It opens in 866, as Danish armies are overrunning England one kingdom at a time, and follows the fifty-year fight to stop them, centred on…
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