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Burning Land (Hardcover)

by Bernard Cornwell (Author)

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: UK General Books (Oct 26 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007219741
ISBN-13: 978-0007219742
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 599 g

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Praise for The Burning Land: 'Cornwell draws a fascinating picture of England as it might have been before anything like England existed' The Times Praise for AZINCOURT: 'This is a magnificent and gory work' Daily Mail 'The historical blockbuster of the year' Evening Standard 'If Bernard Cornwell was born to write one book, this is it. No other historical novelist has acquired such a mastery of the minutiae of warfare in centuries past.' Daily Telegraph 'A runaway success' Observer Praise for Bernard Cornwell: 'The characterisation, as ever, is excellent!And one can only admire the little touches that bring the period to life. He can also claim to be a true poet of both the horror and the glory of war.' Sunday Telegraph This is typical Cornwell, meticulously researched, massive in scope, brilliant in execution'. News of the World 'He's called a master story-teller. Really he's cleverer than that.' Telegraph

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The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity! First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel, the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex, that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Predictable Cornwell, Oct 31 2009

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This review is from: Burning Land (Paperback)

Bernard Cornwell's literary sausage maker is again in action as the author returns to his Anglo-Saxon adventure series starring Uhtred of Bebbanburg. In The Burning Land we see our hero a few years older but no less resentful of his oath to serve Alfred of Wessex and no less hostile to Christianity. To no one's surprise the plot involves Uhtred's desire to return north to recover his lost lands and the necessity to defend southern England from a series of Danish incursions. A rogue's gallery of villains -- Vikings, witches and traitors -- complete the cast.

Predictably, most priests are an unsavoury lot. In the first two pages we are treated to a description of miserable-looking monks, one slack-faced with fat lips and a fatter goitre, one copying a forged land grant and the other penning a fable robbing a decent pagan of his rightful share of glory. Alfred, the only English king to deserve the title of the Great is depicted as priest-ridden, superstitious and a master conniver. Christianity itself is described as a disease that spreads like the plague.

Predictably, the battle scenes are exciting and the gore is described in great detail -- spurting blood, crunching bone, spilled entrails are inevitable when the seemingly invincible Uhtred smites invading Danes, treacherous Saxons or greedy Frisians. Betrayal, as usual, is on every hand and beautiful women, as usual, make their way to Uhtred's bed.

Though we have seen it all before, Cornwell's story-telling is still decent entertainment value. One wonders just how much better he could be if he recycled his old material less and created some fresh scenarios but if you're stuck in a line waiting for a flu vaccine or cooling your heels in an airport terminal you could do worse than be reading The Burning Land.

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