Widukind Story of a Rebel

Widukind was no shining hero. No saint. No noble knight with a clean sword and a pious gaze. He was a son of dirt, forest, and resistance. In an age when Charles the Great expanded his power across Europe with sword and cross, the Saxons faced a choice: bow, be baptized, disappear-or fight. Amid burning villages, bloody battles, betrayal, hunger, and pagan defiance, Widukind rises into the man who becomes the symbol of an entire people. But this story tells no clean legend. It tells of mud, fear, rage, beer, blood, and men who would rather die than willingly put themselves in chains. Of a rebel who never wanted to be a hero-and became one for exactly that reason. Of a Saxon who rose against an empire that wanted to conquer not only land, but souls. Widukind - Story of a Rebel is a dirty, powerful, and merciless historical novel about freedom, submission, faith, violence, and the price of resistance.

Pagina's: 231, Paperback, Independently published