Book description
The story of Hereward, forgotten hero of English history, continues
in James Wilde's second brutal and bloody novel - a must-read for
action-packed historical fiction fans!
1067. The battle of Hastings has been lost. Harold Godwinsson is
dead. The iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the
life out of England. Villages are torched and men, women and children
put to the sword as the Norman king attempts to impose his cruel will
upon this unruly nation.
But there is one who stands in the way of the invader's savagery. He
is called Hereward. He is a warrior and master tactician and as adept
at slaughter as the imposter who sits upon the throne. And he is
England's last hope.
In a Fenlands fortress of water and wild wood, Hereward's resistance
is simmering. His army of outcasts grows by the day - a devil's army
that emerges out of the mists and the night, leaving death in its
wake. But William is not easily cowed. Under the command of his
ruthless deputy, Ivo Taillebois - the 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.
Here then is the tale of the bloodiest rebellion England has ever
known - the beginning of an epic struggle that will echo down the years...
James Wilde
is a Man of Mercia. Raised in a world of books, the author studied
economic history at university before travelling the world in search of
adventure. Unable to forget a childhood encounter - in the pages of a
comic - with the great English warrior, Hereward, Wilde returned to the
haunted fenlands of Eastern England, Hereward's ancestral home, where he
became convinced that this legendary hero should be the subject of his
first novel. Wilde indulges his love of history and the high life in the
home his family have owned for several generations in the heart of a
Mercian forest.
