Katie nurses him through a long recuperation, but they cannot agree-should they return to Maine or join America’s mad flight westward? Ultimately transplanted to booming Chicago, little goes right for them in that overnight metropolis, which will test their strength and commitment as never before. Finally receiving a brief furlough, he hurries home for a rushed wedding and precious hours as man and wife.Ī ghastly battlefield wound ends Henry’s war. Quiet letters between Henry in army camps and Katie at home strengthen their love. Katie, working on short-term teaching contracts, organizes neighbor women to make warm items for Maine’s men in uniform. Staggering through a dozen brutal battles, including the desperate defense of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, he rises to sergeant. Then America explodes in civil war.Īt first surprised by Katie’s anti-slavery feelings, then persuaded, Henry enlists in the 20th Maine Infantry, fated to become a legendary regiment in the Union Army. Their hearts are light and the future looks bright. She wants to teach school whenever her family duties relent.
In 1861, Henry and Katie have found love on the rugged Maine coast. This novel, the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex, that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom.The Burning Land, Book 2 of the Overstreet Saga brings the reader back to the Civil War and its aftermath, when Americans fought to determine what the nation would become-a time of excitement, opportunity, and agonizing loss, when history played havoc with the lives of ordinary people like Henry Overstreet and Katie Nash.
But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred, his unwilling warlord, who leads Harald into a trap and, at Farnham in Surrey, inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. BBC2's major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.
Publishers Description: The fifth novel in Bernard Cornwell's epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman, Skade. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.
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