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La Création de l'Angleterre

Embarquez pour une saga historique captivante se déroulant pendant la formation tumultueuse de l'Angleterre. Suivez les destins entrelacés de vaillants guerriers et de gens ordinaires naviguant dans un paysage de batailles brutales et d'intrigues politiques. Cette série mêle magistralement l'exactitude historique à une narration immersive, plongeant les lecteurs dans une riche tapisserie de la vie médiévale, d'héroïsme et de la lutte durable pour la liberté.

Lionheart
Conquest
Crusade
Anarchy

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. 1

    Conquest

    • 497pages
    • 18 heures de lecture
    3,7(402)Évaluer

    1066 - Senlac Ridge, England. William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy, defeats Harold Godwinson, King Harold II of England, in what will become known as the Battle of Hastings.The battle is hard fought and bloody, the lives of thousands have been spent, including that of King Harold. But England will not be conquered easily, the Anglo-Saxons will not submit meekly to Norman rule.Although his heroic deeds will nearly be lost to legend, one man unites the resistance. His name is Hereward of Bourne, the champion of the English. His honour, bravery and skill at arms will change the future of England. His is the legacy of the noble outlaw.This is his story.

    Conquest
  2. 2

    Crusade

    • 544pages
    • 20 heures de lecture
    3,8(165)Évaluer

    1072 - England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the English throne, to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow: brother against brother, family against family, friend against friend. In the face of chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice and freedom wherever they are denied. But soon they are called to fight for an even greater cause: the plight of the Holy Land. Embarking on the epic First Crusade to recapture Jerusalem, together they will participate in some of the cruellest battles the world has ever known, the savage Siege of Antioch and the brutal Fall of Jerusalem, and together they will fight to the death.

    Crusade
  3. 3

    The year is 1186, the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry II. Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, has lived through long Henry's reign and that of his grandfather, Henry I. He has witnessed the terrifying civil war between Henry II's mother, the Empress Matilda, and her cousin, Stephen; a time so traumatic it becomes known as the Anarchy.

    Anarchy
  4. 4

    Lionheart

    • 576pages
    • 21 heures de lecture
    3,8(137)Évaluer

    1176 - England King Henry II reigns over a vast empire that stretches the length of Britain and reaches the foothills of the Pyrenees. But he is aging, and his powerful and ambitious sons are restless. Henry's third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation for being a ruthless warrior.

    Lionheart