The Last Kingdom · Book 9
Warriors of the Storm
- Published
- 8 October 2015
- Pages
- 344
- ISBN-13
- 9780007504077
- Type
- novel
About this book
Warriors of the Storm (2015, 344 pages) is the ninth book in The Last Kingdom, continuing the fight for England under Alfred the Great's successors. It keeps to Cornwell's ground-level, unsentimental battle writing and Uhtred's reluctant, oath-bound service to a cause he never chose.
Its place in The Last Kingdom
Warriors of the Storm is book 9 in the The Last Kingdom series. It follows The Empty Throne. It is followed by The Flame Bearer. 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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