AELFREDS BRITAIN: WAR AND PEACE IN THE VIKING AGE (PB)

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, Ælfred son of Æðelwulf. It seemed as though the End of Days had come. This is the story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain.