Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England Livingston Michael
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England Livingston Michael 'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better…
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Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England Livingston Michael
'No one has done more than Michael Livingston to revive memories of the battle, and you could not hope for a better guide.' BERNARD CORNWELL Bestselling author of The Last Kingdom seriesLate in AD 937, four armies met at Brunanburh. On the other side, a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who had come together to destroy the Anglo-Saxons once and for all. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons.
The armies were massive. The stakes were no less than the survival of the dream that would become England. The violence, when it began, was enough to shock a violent age.Brunanburh may not today have the fame of Hastings, Crcy or Agincourt, but generations later it was still called, quite simply, the 'great battle'.
For centuries now, its location has been lost but after an extraordinary effort,