Description The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes.
Tom Holland recounts this extraordinary story with relish and drama, transp.
But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae \'King of the whole of Britain\'.
Description The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes