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Dawn Hadley is Professor of Medieval Archaeology and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. She has excavated extensively on medieval sites in Lincolnshire. Julian Richards is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of York. He has directed excavations of Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements at Wharram Percy, Burdale, Cowlam and Cottam, and of the Viking cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby. He is author of Viking Age England, now in its third edition, and of OUP's Very Short Introduction to Vikings.
'The story of the Viking Great Army and its campaigns changed the political landscape of the British Isles forever. Until recently it seemed as if nothing more was likely to be discovered about the course of these dramatic events. This exciting book describes stunning new archaeological discoveries that totally rewrite our view of what happened. Here, in mesmerizing detail, we can follow the army as it criss-crossed Britain in the time of Alfred the Great, demolishing the old kingdoms. With gripping immediacy the book backs up the monastic chroniclers' stories of the scale of the threat and the devastation the army wrought in its remorseless progress across the land. Unmissable for anyone interested in early medieval history and who finds the Viking Age one of the most dramatic, violent, yet formative epochs in British history' - Michael Wood, Historian and author of The Story of China' and 'In Search of the Dark Ages'
