A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.
Max Adams is the author of Admiral Collingwood, The Prometheans, the bestselling The King in the North and In the Land of Giants. He has lived and worked in the North-East of England since 1993.
'This engrossing history of the British people between the first
Viking raids in 865 and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in
954 is notable for being a more nuanced portrait of that era ...
Lands other than Wessex come into fascinating new focus' The
Bookseller.
'An evocative look at a period that continues to grab the popular
imagination' History Revealed.
'This is much more than a book about the Vikings versus King Alfred
... [Adams'] great achievement is to cover events throughout the
whole of Britain with some excursions into Ireland and Europe as
well' TLS.
'A beautifully crafted and impeccably compiled book, and one that
is certainly a must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in
the events and figures that moulded Britain during the reign of the
Vikings' All About History.
'Essential reading for all those interested in late Anglo-Saxon
Britain' Historical Novel Society.
'Adams very usefully drops from the macro-narratives to detailed
examples of what all this meant to people at ground level, using
the evidence of coins and charters and, especially, archaeology -
much of which exposes the written chronicles and histories as
propaganda ... A great virtue of his book - in following the
archaeologists and the geographers, the reconstructors and the
genealogists, Adams never forgets to ask what it looked like to the
people on the ground' London Review of Books.
'Brilliantly combining history and archaeological research with an
eye for the terrain [Aelfred's Britain is] a compelling read
that is as knowledgeable on warfare in the Middle Ages as it is on
civic life in Saxon London and Viking York' The Lady.
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