{"id":1396,"date":"2016-10-13T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2017-04-05T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T23:23:09","slug":"sword-song-the-battle-for-london-by-bernard-cornwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Sword Song: The Battle For London by Bernard Cornwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/3571555\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/0060888644.01._SX142_SY224_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Sword Song: The Battle For London by Bernard Cornwell\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book is set in the late 9th century England and involves several of the primary historical figures of Wessex and Mercia.  The characters are well-done, they have depth and are interesting.  I  can&#8217;t speak to their historical accuracy, though.  <\/p>\n<p>The book gives a very good feel for the time period.  The characters strong, their actions are immediate and often cruel by our standards.  The culture really comes out.  <\/p>\n<p>The story hinges around the fight for London between Danish Vikings in the north and the Saxons in Wessex.  King Alfred gives his daughter&#8217;s hand in an attempt to solidify his hold on London.  <\/p>\n<p>I found the fight scenes very detailed and convincing.  Their descriptions reveal well-thought out tactics and formations.  You can almost smell the sweat and gore.  <\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t realized it was part of a series.  It makes a good stand-alone book, though.  It helped to solidify my understanding of that period in English history.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book is set in the late 9th century England and involves several of the primary historical figures of Wessex and Mercia. The characters are well-done, they have depth and are interesting. I can&#8217;t speak to their historical accuracy, though. The book gives a very good feel for the time period. The characters strong, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-history","tag-bernard-cornwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}