James Wilde is a Man of Mercia, raised in a world of books. After studying economic history and traveling the world, his fascination with the legendary English warrior, Hereward, remained strong. Wilde returned to the fenlands of Eastern England, Hereward's ancestral home, to bring this historic figure to life in his first novel. He now pursues his love of history and the high life from his family's ancestral home in the heart of a Mercian forest.
Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the third and final chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . . AD 375 - The Dark Age is drawing near . This is the shattering conclusion to James Wilde's rousing reimagining of the myth of King Arthur .
England, 1067. Die Schlacht von Hastings wurde verloren, und Harald II., der letzte angelsächsische König, ist tot. Der neue König, Wilhelm der Bastard aus der Normandie, regiert England mit eiserner Hand: Dörfer werden verwüstet, die Bewohner hingerichtet. Doch es gibt einen Mann, der sich dem brutalen Eroberer in den Weg stellt: Hereward. In den Fenlands, dem sumpfigen Waldgebiet im Osten, schwelt Herewards Widerstand. Sein Heer aus Verbannten wächst stetig und erzielt kleine militärische Erfolge. Als der normannische König davon erfährt, entsendet er seine grausamsten Kämpfer, um die Rebellen zu vernichten. Können Hereward und seine Mannen der Übermacht trotzen?
Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of betrayal, battle and bloodshed . The army of Rome - once the most effective fighting force in the world - has been broken, its spirit lost and its remaining troops shattered.
Only when the child of a friend is snatched will he venture alone into this treacherous world - a territory ruled over by a barbarian horde - in order to bring the boy back home.
Within the city of Constantinople itself, three venal factions will go to any lengths - will, it seems, kill any who might stand in their way - to seize the throne. While in the east, the Turkish hordes are massing - theirs is a lust for slaughter.
1072 - The great battle has been lost. King William stands victorious. And for the betrayed and abandoned English rebels, the price of their crushing defeat is cruel: exile. Cut adrift from family, friends, home, their hopes of survival lie with one man, their leader Hereward. But can even that now-legendary hero navigate a safe course across a world torn by war? Their ultimate destination is the jewelled heart of the Christian emperor in the East, the New Rome - Byzantium. Here the English hope to find gold and glory by joining those pledged to protect the emperor, the elite and savage Varangian Guard. But this once-mighty empire is slipping into shadow. Beyond the vast walls, the endless Turkish hordes plan for an attack that could come at any moment. And within the sprawling city, rival factions threaten bloody mayhem as they scheme to seize the crown. Here begins a new chapter in the stirring tale of England's forgotten hero. But now the enemies are hidden, their methods bloodier, the battlefield and weapons unfamiliar and to stay alive in this cauldron of plot, betrayal and murder, Hereward and the English must fight as never before...
1073 - under the merciless sun of the east, a dark force has risen - a Norman adventurer who could rival the feared King William for bloody ambition.
With their hopes of victory dwindling, can the English rebels find the leader who seems to have abandoned them before William the Bastard begins his final, devastating assault that will truly be the end of days...
The iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the life out of England. Under the command of his ruthless deputy, a man they call 'the Butcher', the Norman forces will do whatever it takes to crush the rebels, even if it means razing England to the ground.
1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can drown England in a tide of blood.The ravens of war are gathering. But as the king's closest advisors scheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes of resisting the naked ambition of the Norman duke come to rest with just one man: Hereward...To some a brilliant warrior, to others a devil in human form, Hereward is as adept in the art of slaughter as the enemies that gather to claim England's throne. But in his country's hour of greatest need, he has been declared an outlaw. To stay alive - and a freeman - he must carve a bloody swathe from the frozen hills of Northumbria to Flanders' fields and the fenlands of East Anglia.The tale of a man whose deeds will become the stuff of legend, this is also the story of two mis-matched allies: Hereward the man of war, and Alric, a monk and a man of peace. One will risk everything to save the land he loves, the other to save his friend's soul...
