Bernard Cornwell 
Saxon Tales Collection: Books #1-4 
The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song

A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwells bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, like Game of Thrones, but real (The Observer, London)the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the excitingyet little knownstory 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.This thrilling adventurebased on existing records of Cornwells ancestorsdepicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.History comes alive.Boston Globe