It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Greatand his descendants and of the enemies they faced Viking warriors like Ivarthe Bone... » 

It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Greatand his descendants and of the enemies they faced Viking warriors like Ivarthe Boneless and his feared brother Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwellhas woven a story of divided loyalties reluctant love and desperate heroism.In Uhtred he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters andin The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful and passionate novels. «