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Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1035004178

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1035004171

Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Osprey Publishing

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472849388

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472849380

Description:

Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

This companion to the internationally bestselling series will delve into the creation of Robert Jordan’s masterpiece, drawing from interviews and an unprecedented examination of his unpublished notes. Michael Livingston tells the behind-the-scenes story of who Jordan was (including a chapter that is the very first published biography of the author), how he worked, and why he holds such an important place in modern literature.

Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England

Late in AD 937, four armies met at Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side, a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who had come together to destroy the Anglo-Saxons once and for all. The stakes were no less than the survival of the dream that would become England. The armies were massive. The violence, when it began, was enough to shock a violent age.