Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England (Osprey General Military)
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England (Osprey General Military)
2021 | ISBN: 147284937X | English | 241 Pages | True PDF | 36,9 MB
2021 | ISBN: 147284937X | English | 241 Pages | True PDF | 36,9 MB
Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all. The stakes were no less than the survival of the dream that would become England. The armies were massive. The violence, when it began, was enough to shock a violent age. Brunanburh may not today have the fame of Hastings, Crйcy or Agincourt, but those later battles, fought for England, would not exist were it not for the blood spilled this day. Generations later it was still called, quite simply, the ‘great battle'. But for centuries, its location has been lost.