
The Singing Sword is the second book in the Camulod Chronicles series by Jack Whyte, which delves into the historical fiction retelling of the Arthurian legend. The story follows Publius Varrus, a Roman legionnaire and the man who will forge Excalibur. Set in the twilight of the Roman Empire, the book offers a realistic portrayal of King Arthur's ancestors, focusing on the struggles of the infant colony founded by Varrus and his friend Caius Britannicus in southwest Britain. Through the eyes of Varrus, readers witness the emergence of Arthurian motifs and characters, such as the birth of Merlyn and Uther, against the backdrop of Saxon raids and the crumbling Roman empire.
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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.
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Jack Whyte is a Scots-born, award-winning Canadian author whose poem, The Faceless One, was featured at the 1991 New York Film Festival. The Camulod Chronicles is his greatest work, a stunning retelling of one of our greatest legends: the making of King Arthur's Britain. He lives in British Columbia, Canada.
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