à lfred's Britain, war and peace in the Viking age, Max Adams
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à lfred's Britain, war and peace in the Viking age, Max Adams
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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à lfred's Britain
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Max Adams
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war and peace in the Viking age
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In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid the North to waste. Ghosting along estuaries and inshore waters, in 871 they penetrated deep into the southern kingdom of Wessex, ruled over by a new and untested king, à lfred son of à ðelwulf. It seemed as though the End of Days had come. Max Adams tells the story of the heroic efforts of à lfred, his successors and fellow-kings of Britain, to adapt and survive in the face of an apocalyptic threat; and in so doing, to lay the foundations of the nations of modern Britain in all their regional diversity
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