The Pale Horseman (Abridged)

The second installment of Bernard Cornwellamp;#8217;s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, amp;#8220;like Game of Thrones, but realamp;#8221; (The Observer, London)amp;#8212;the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.

This is the excitingamp;#8212;yet little knownamp;#8212;story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the …