The Empty Throne

by Bernard Cornwell

Overview

Nachalo X stoletiya. Britanskim zemlyam ugrozhaet vtorzhenie voinstvennyh danov, i ob"edinennye sily korolevstv Uehsseksa i Mersii s trudom protivostoyat im. Polozhenie usugublyaetsya so smert'yu EHtel'reda, vladyki Mersii, ne ostavivshego zakonnogo naslednika. Vdova EHtel'reda, nesmotrya na to chto obychaj velit ej ujti v monastyr', reshaet vzyat' brazdy pravleniya v svoi ruki. Ee podderzhivaet doblestnyj polkovodec Utred Bebbanburgskij, no mersijskie lordy vozmushcheny: gde ehto vidano, chtoby stranoj pravila zhenshchina? Mezhdu saksami nachinaetsya bor'ba za pustuyushchij tron, a tem vremenem na severnoj granice poyavlyaetsya novyj mogushchestvennyj vrag. Sud'ba anglijskoj nacii visit na voloske... Vos'moj roman iz cikla "Saksonskie hroniki".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389155916
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	08/31/2018
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	989 KB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical fiction and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. Among his many books are the New York Times bestsellers 1356 and Agincourt; the bestselling Saxon Tales, which include The Last Kingdom; and the Richard Sharpe novels. He currently lives in the U.S. with his wife. Cornwell is alleged to have begun writing novels because he couldn't get a Green Card when he arrived in the U.S., and writing didn't require a work permit.