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384 p. : map Summary: In the last years of the 9th century, King Alfred is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Vikings, who have tried and failed to conquer Wessex, smell an opportunity, and Harald Bloodhair attacks. The Viking horde is led into a trap by Alfred's unwilling warlord Uhtred, inflicting the greatest defeat ever suffered by the Vikings, and saving Wessex