| Title | : | Athelstan: The Making of England (Penguin Monarchs) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0241187818 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-01 |
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The formation of England happened against the odds—the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex, his son Eadweard expanded it, and his grandson Æthelstan finally united Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and became Rex totius Britanniae. Tom Holland recounts this extraordinarily exciting story with relish and drama. We meet the great figures of the age, including Alfred and his daughter Æthelflæd, 'Lady of the Mercians', who brought Æthelstan up at the Mercian court. At the end of the book we understand the often confusing history of the Anglo-Saxon kings better than ever before.
Editorial : About the AuthorTom Holland is the best-selling author of Rubicon, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, as well as Persian Fire, Millennium, In the Shadow of the Sword and, most recently, Dynasty.
Apparently, he had serious health problems, most in the digestive system, but overcame this adversity, among others, to write some of the greatest scientific documents ever. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it definitely wasn't this.
If you like the The Art of World of Warcraft books that are sold with the collector's editions of the games, I would bet that you would enjoy this. People in the government and those with the necessary connections were stripping assets and stealing. She sets the story up then hits it way out of the ballpark. This book explains in details what I should do and what I should avoid. Aided and abetted by opportunistic Lowland Scots and the Scottish and English authorities, the chiefs drove their clansmen off their lands and out of their houses and replaced them with more profitable sheep. Truly well done thruout, and not overbearingly difficult for the scientific and biological layman, like this reviewer!. But this book has given me cool advice
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