Hereward: End of Days: (Hereward 3) - Hardcover

Wilde, James

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9780593065020: Hereward: End of Days: (Hereward 3)

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ISBN 10: 0593065026 ISBN 13: 9780593065020

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2013

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Hereward: End of Days England, 1071. Five years have passed since the crushing Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings. The country reels under the savage rule of the new king, the one they call 'the Bastard'. The North has been left a wasteland - villages razed, innocents put to the sword, land stolen. It seems no atrocity is too great to ensure William's grip upon the crown. Rats feed upon fields of the deadAnd now ... Full description

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James Wilde's retelling of the story of England's forgotten hero - Hereward the Wake - continues in this new brutal and bloodily exciting novel - a must-read for historical fiction fans!

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1071. Five years have passed since the Normans’ crushing victory at Hastings. England reels under the savage rule of its new king. The North is a wasteland – villages razed, innocents slaughtered, land stolen. No atrocity is too great to ensure William’s iron grip upon the crown. Rats feed upon the dead.

And now the Bastard’s cold gaze turns east, towards the last stronghold of English resistance. He will brook no further challenge to his power. His vast army masses; his machines of war are made ready.

In their fortress island of Ely, the rebels have put their faith in one man – a warrior, a leader and a master of the art of waging war: Hereward. He plans an uprising that will sweep the hated Norman king from the throne once and for all.

But Hereward has vanished – and with him, it seems, England’s hope of liberty. Can he really have abandoned his people just as William begins the devastating assault that will surely mark the end of days . . .

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