Max Adams Livres

The eighth century in British history, often overlooked, was crucial for the rise of Mercia as a powerful kingdom before Wessex's dominance. Key figures, Kings Æthelbald and Offa, shaped this era by establishing political authority, enhancing trade networks, and fostering cultural ties with the Continent. Their reigns saw the emergence of significant place names and the development of a coordinated defense system. Max Adams explores the intricate relationships between kingship, landholding, and the church, revealing the foundational changes that influenced medieval England's geography and politics.

A celebration of 100 tree species from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Oceania and the Americas.

A high action World War II thriller introducing a mesmerizing new hero and action as real as it gets, from an author who used to work in covert operationsAs Hitler's armies march into Europe, Eddie Dawson, an explosives expert and somewhat reluctant Lance-Corporal in the Royal Engineers, is sent to France on an assessment mission that seems straightforward enough. His task completed, he anticipates an early return to Britain, but instead he's sent to the Saarland region, where the French have launched an ill-advised invasion into German territory. Dawson's demolition skills are needed to clear a way through a minefield. Within hours everything goes wrong and Dawson and a fellow sapper are caught on the wrong side of the front line. Their obvious escape route blocked, they head north, but their troubles have only just begun.

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.

A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for Tolkein's Aragorn. Oswald of Northumbria was the first great English monarch, yet today this legendary figure is all but forgotten. In this panoramic protrait of Dark Age Britain, archaeologist and biographer Max Adams returns the king in the North to his rightful place in history.

A bestselling historian tells the story of the landscapes, peoples and culture of early medieval Britain through ten walks and an epic sea voyage.

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.

From tools and devices to construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores wood - the material that shaped human history.

<b>A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.</b> In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity. Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in <em>The Viking Wars</em>.