Last Kingdom Standing: Alfred the Great's Last Stand at Edington

What if the nation we know as England was almost erased from the map before it ever truly began?  In the bitter winter of 878 AD, the Great Heathen Army struck with terrifying, calculated precision. Wessex, the final bastion of Anglo-Saxon culture, crumbled in a matter of days. Its nobility fled, its armies scattered to the winds, and its young king was hunted like an animal into the trackless, di...