The Last Kingdom · Book 13
War Lord
- Published
- 15 October 2020
- Pages
- 357
- ISBN-13
- 9780008183981
- Type
- novel
About this book
The thirteenth and final book in The Last Kingdom, War Lord (2020, 357 pages) follows Sword of Kings and closes out Uhtred's fifty-year story -- Cornwell has confirmed it as the ending. It brings the fight begun in 866 to its conclusion: a united England, finally and violently born.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
War Lord is book 13 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows Sword of Kings. It is followed by Uhtred's Feast: Inside the World of The Last Kingdom. 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…
Editions
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