The Last Kingdom: Bernard CornwellBook I of The Saxon Stories. This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of Englands four kingdoms. The story is told by Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child then raised by the Danes so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfreds kingdom and the last