Great entertainment for fans of historical epics. Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom.
Swords have names like Serpent-Breath, Soul-Stealer, and Wasp-Sting.
is a rousing, bloodthirsty tale of tumult in early-days Britain.
He also crafted clever and intricate boxes, within which treasures could be hidden. Parallel to the story of Marie-Laure we meet Werner and Jutta Pfennig, a brother and sister, both orphans who have been raised in the Children’s House outside Essen, in Germany. Both Elwood’s idealism and Turner’s cynicism entwine into an alliance that compels drastic action—and a shared destiny. Inspired by disclosures of a real-life Florida reform school’s long-standing corruption and abusive practices, Whitehead’s... The War of the Worlds, science fiction novel by H.G. He might have regained Bebbanburg, but he is still forced into a vicious war to preserve Northumbria. There's something a tad more melodramatic in this book's conception (and resolution) than one expects from Whitehead, giving it a drugstore-paperback glossiness that enhances its blunt-edged impact.
A Christian man laments that “my god weeps for Englaland…my god wants peace.” Alas, that god gets no satisfaction in this grand adventure. The author skillfully integrates actual historical figures with his fictional characters. ({"reviews_widget":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n #goodreads-widget {\n font-family: georgia, serif;\n padding: 18px 0;\n width:565px;\n }\n #goodreads-widget h1 {\n font-weight:normal;\n font-size: 16px;\n border-bottom: 1px solid #BBB596;\n margin-bottom: 0;\n }\n #goodreads-widget a {\n text-decoration: none;\n color:#660;\n }\n iframe{\n background-color: #fff;\n }\n #goodreads-widget a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }\n #goodreads-widget a:active {\n color:#660;\n }\n #gr_footer {\n width: 100%;\n border-top: 1px solid #BBB596;\n text-align: right;\n }\n #goodreads-widget .gr_branding{\n color: #382110;\n font-size: 11px;\n text-decoration: none;\n font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\n }\n\u003c/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"goodreads-widget\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv id=\"gr_header\"\u003e\u003ch1\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37819082-war-of-the-wolf\"\u003eWar of the Wolf Reviews\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h1\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003ciframe id=\"the_iframe\" src=\"https://www.goodreads.com/api/reviews_widget_iframe?did=DEVELOPER_ID\u0026amp;format=html\u0026amp;isbn=006256319X\u0026amp;links=660\u0026amp;review_back=fff\u0026amp;stars=000\u0026amp;text=000\" width=\"565\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n \u003cdiv id=\"gr_footer\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"gr_branding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37819082-war-of-the-wolf?utm_medium=api\u0026amp;utm_source=reviews_widget\"\u003eReviews from Goodreads.com\u003c/a\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n"})
It’s the early 1960s, and Elwood can feel changes coming every time he listens to an LP of his hero Martin Luther King Jr. sermonizing about breaking down racial barriers. Through flashbacks we learn that Werner had been a curious and bright child who developed an obsession with radio transmitters and receivers, both in their infancies during this period.
At first, Elwood thinks he can work his way past the arbitrary punishments and sadistic treatment (“I am stuck here, but I’ll make the best of it…and I’ll make it brief”). If we were to use a baseball metaphor, we would say that the master of historical novels just hit another homer! Elwood Curtis is a law-abiding, teenage paragon of rectitude, an avid reader of encyclopedias and after-school worker diligently overcoming hardships that come from being abandoned by his parents and growing up black and poor in segregated Tallahassee, Florida.
by War of the Wolf is the latest novel in the Saxon Tales series by renowned author Bernard Cornwell.
by For one thing, Uhtred’s son-in-law Sigtryggr is already king there. He wants to annex Northumbria, but Uhtred will not swear loyalty to him. But while hitchhiking to his first day of classes at a nearby black college, Elwood accepts a ride in what turns out to be a stolen car and is sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a juvenile reformatory that looks somewhat like the campus he’d almost attended but turns out to be a monstrously racist institution whose students, white and black alike, are brutally beaten, sexually abused, and used by the school’s two-faced officials to steal food and supplies.
War of the Wolf is the eleventh historical novel in The Saxon Stories series by Bernard Cornwell.
Doerr presents us with two intricate stories, both of which take place during World War II; late in the novel, inevitably, they intersect.In August 1944, Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a blind 16-year-old living in the walled port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany and hoping to escape the effects of Allied bombing. She’s taken refuge in this city with her great-uncle Etienne, at first a fairly frightening figure to her.
And be they Saxon, Angle, Dane, or Norse, everyone is enamored of wolves, especially the “wolf-warriors” who use henbane ointment to make them crazy before battle.