Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England Spiral-Bound | May 11, 2021

Late in A.D. 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings who’d come together to destroy them 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. Brunanburh may not today have the fame of Hastings, Crécy, or Agincourt, but those later battles, fought for England, would not exist were it not for the blood spilled this day. Generations afterward it was still called, quite simply, the "great battle.”
And for centuries, its location has been lost. Today, an extraordinary effort, uniting enthusiasts, historians, archaeologists, linguists, and other researchers—amateurs and professionals, experienced and inexperienced alike—may well have found the site of the long-lost battle of Brunanburh, over a thousand years after its bloodied fields witnessed history.
This book will be, in part, the story of this remarkable discovery. Most important, though, this book will be about the men who fought and died at Brunanburh, and how much this forgotten struggle can tell us about who we are and how we relate to our past.