EPISODE · Dec 2, 2014 · 5 MIN
Sword Song: The Battle for London by Bernard Cornwell
from Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & War · host Gregg Bechtelar
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sword Song: The Battle for London Series: #4 of Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales) Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 18 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: The fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Warrior by instinct and Viking by nature, Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has land, a wife and children—and a duty to King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have invaded the decayed Roman city of London with dreams of conquering Wessex... with Uhtred’s help. Suddenly forced to weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles, Uhtred—Alfred’s sharpest sword—must now make the choice that will determine England’s future.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sword Song: The Battle for London Series: #4 of Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales) Author: Bernard Cornwell Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.74 of Total 42 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 18 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: The fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Warrior by instinct and Viking by nature, Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has land, a wife and children—and a duty to King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have invaded the decayed Roman city of London with dreams of conquering Wessex... with Uhtred’s help. Suddenly forced to weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles, Uhtred—Alfred’s sharpest sword—must now make the choice that will determine England’s future.
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