Swim for your life

This historical series really puts the story back into history! Each exciting bookbrings the past alive by linking key events to a fast moving narrative. The series is characterised by short chapters, wonderful illustrations, a glossary of unfamiliar terms and a What Happened Next? chapter.Find King Alfred!begins with the Viking's winter invasion of Wessex. The Saxon kingdom crumbles before them, until Alfred, one of England's true hero-kings, raises his standard amid the marshy wastes of Somerset...