@article{354397,
      recid = {354397},
      author = {Cornwell, Bernard.},
      title = {The pale horseman /},
      publisher = {HarperCollinsPublishers,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xv, 349 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Sequel to: The last kingdom.},
      abstract = {Uhtred is a Saxon, cheated of his inheritance and adrift  in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He has to make a  choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him,  or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him.  In the late ninth century, Wessex is the last English  kingdom. The rest have fallen to the Danish Vikings, a  story told in The Last Kingdom, the New York Times  bestselling novel in which Uhtred's tale began. Now the  Vikings want to finish England. They assemble the Great  Army, whose one ambition is to conquer Wessex. A  dispossessed young nobleman, married to a woman who hails  from Wessex, Uhtred has little love for either, though for  King Alfred he has none at all. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns,  has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack out of  a wintry darkness to shatter the last English kingdom,  Uhtred finds himself at Alfred's side. Bernard Cornwell's  The Pale Horseman, like The Last Kingdom, is rooted in the  real history of Anglo-Saxon England. It tells the  astonishing and true story of how Alfred, forced to become  a fugitive in a few square miles of swampland, fights his  enemies against overwhelming odds. The king is a pious  Christian, while Uhtred is a pagan. Alfred is a sickly  scholar, while Uhtred is an arrogant warrior. Yet the two  forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them out of the  marshes to the stark hilltop where the last remaining Saxon  army will fight for the very existence of England.  Enthralling as both a historical and personal story, The  Pale Horseman is a novel of divided loyalties and desperate  heroism, featuring a cast of fully realized characters,  from a king in despair to a beguiling British sorceress.  And always, beyond the spearmen and the swordsmen are the  folk who suffer as the tides of war sweep over their  farmlands.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/354397},
}