The Last Kingdom · Book 12
Sword of Kings
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780062563231
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sword of Kings (2019, 400 pages) precedes War Lord as the twelfth novel in The Last Kingdom, part of the single continuous arc Cornwell wrote from 2004 through to the series' 2020 conclusion. Uhtred of Bebbanburg's fight to unite England's Saxon kingdoms against Danish rule is nearly at its end.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
Sword of Kings is book 12 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows War of the Wolf. It is followed by War 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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