THE TESTAMENT OF LEOFRIC THE BLACK: VOLUME TWO 1059-1066 - Couverture souple

Beard, Edward Cartwright

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1999360753 ISBN 13 : 9781999360757

Editeur : Holt and Dean Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

A Kingdom without an heir, is like a lamb in the lair of wolves.
’Five kings. Three battles, One victor.
1066
Arguably the most famous date in English History.The Norman conquest of England.What were the circumstances that led to such events?

Leofric Knows. He was there!

Leofric the Black, still on the run from both Normans and his own Saxon comrades, relates how he was drawn into multiple conflicts with the Scots, Welsh and Normans. He also tells of an ageing king with no heir, who relinquished his earthly, royal responsibilities for heavenly ones.Leofric witnesses how rebellion, personal ambition and greed endangers England’s freedom at the hands of vicious warlords.Leofric struggles with his club foot and his own personal inner conflicts. Still hurting from the death of his wife Astrid and set on revenge for the murder of his father, Leofric is torn between his new home in the north and his friendship with Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex. Faced with a rebellion of the northern thegns he must choose who to support Amidst all this is Mair, the so-called sorceress, convinced she and Leofric are destined to be together and fight to free Britain from its oppressors.Leofric has scores to settle, debts to repay and an encounter with William, the bastard Duke of Normandy, that will change his life forever.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Holt and Dean Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1999360753
• ISBN 13: 9781999360757
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 385
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