SINGING SWORD, THE by Jack Whyte - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Jack Whyte.We know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known
only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the
chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone
by England's greatest king.
But legends do not tell the whole
tale. Legends do not tell of the despairing Roman soldiers, abandoned by
their empire, faced with the choice of fleeing back to Rome, or
struggling to create a last stronghold against the barbarian onslaughts
from the north and east. Legends do not tell of Arthur's
great-grandfather, Publius Varrus, the warrior who marked the boundaries
of a reborn empire with his own shed blood; they do not tell of
Publius's wife, Luceiia, British-born and Roman-raised, whose fierce
beauty burned pale next to her passion for law and honor.
With The Camulod Chronicles,
Jack Whyte tells us what legend has forgotten: the history of blood and
violence, passion and steel, out of which was forged a great sword, and
a great nation. The Singing Sword continues the gripping epic begun in The Skystone:
As the great night of the Dark Ages falls over Roman Britain, a lone
man and woman fight to build a last stronghold of law and learning—a
crude hill-fort, which one day, long after their deaths, will become a
great city known as Camelot.