Genre: Historical Fiction
Title: Confrontation: An Axe of Iron Novel
Author: J.A. Hunsinger
Have you ever been enthralled by a story of people thrown into improbable circumstance such as being marooned in a foreign land among people with whom you cannot communicate? People will go wild for movies or TV shows that depict such situations. Why not enjoy the story and adventures of people who might very well have existed?
Vinland is the Norse name for the area colonized by Vikings in what we now call the St Lawrence River Valley in Canada. Due to the lack of a written record it is impossible to give an exact accounting of events at the settlements, but through careful historical research it is possible to accurately set the stage for what might have actually happened.
Halfdansfjord in Vinland is such a historical recreation. It is led by its chieftain Halfdan, his lieutenant and fearless friend Gudbjartur, and the Indian, Deskaheh who came to live among the Northmen after being captured in battle.
It is the story of people who have sought adventure and ended up living in a land inhabited by peoples of a totally different cultural lineage. The Northmena are looking to solve the many problems that adventurers in new lands must face. There is the problem of food, climate, flora, fauna, and of course procreations. Women are in short supply to the Northmen. Can the colony survive beyond the first generation? Will the Northmen and their few fiends survive and prosper together in peace or will they slowly be killed off one by one or massacred in one attack?
Read this very well researched and very well written book and let yourself be carried and a part of the lives of the characters and dream of what you would do in the same situation because it could very well have happened. This book is highly recommended by this reviewer not only because it is well written as a novel, but it as well written as history should be – a gripping story of people in a moment in time.
Reviewer: John Helman, Allbooks Reviews.
Title: Confrontation: An Axe of Iron Novel
Author: J.A. Hunsinger
Publisher: Vinland
ISBN: 978-0-9801601-5-4
Pages: 311
Price: $16.95