The Last Kingdom

Title: The Last Kingdom

Author:Bernard Cornwell

Genre: HistoricalFiction

Length: 384pages

Read: August3-13, 2014

Summary: First Rate

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I usually don’t read “straight” historical fiction (i.e. without magic), but I was drawn to The Last Kingdom by a comment George R R Martin made about how it contained some of the best battles he’d read.

This is the first volume in the “Saxon Stories” (there are at least 8) and chronicles a fictional earl during tumultuous 9th centuryEngland. This is the same period a...