Naval enthusiast James L. Nelson is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including the Samuel Eliot Morison Award winner George Washington's Secret Navy. James has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and C-SPAN's Book TV. He lives in Maine with his family.
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852 AD. For centuries, the Vikings have swept out of the Norse countries and fallen on whatever lands they could reach aboard their longships, and few could resist the power of their violent onslaught. They came at first to plunder, and then to settle, an... SEE MORE