The great King Arthur, the invincible leader of the Britons, successfully opposed the Saxon conquerors, established a knightly Order of the Round Table, at which all were equal to each other. And while historical truth may be buried in that long era of great change, of the great transmigration of peoples, and of rapidly emerging and disappearing kingdoms, the veil of the past is opened before us by the power of Bernard Cornwell’s writing talent. 6th Century Britain . Arthur, the illegitimate son of the supreme king of Uther, seeks to unite the disparate kingdoms of the Britons in order to jointly drive the invaders from their native land. After the victory in Lugg Vale, Arthur's dream is close to being realized, but his plans destroy the betrayal of the exorbitantly ambitious wife of Guinevere and a close friend of Lancelot. However, the spirit of the leader of the Britons, nicknamed the Enemy of God, is not so easy to break. The second novel from the trilogy about the legendary king-governor Arthur, imbued with the spirit of true History