The Orc Wars: The Yngling Saga, Books I & II

By John Dalmas

With the powerful telepathic tyrant Kazi heading west against Europe, with an army of Orcs at his back, it is up to neo-Viking Nils Jarnhann, the Yngling, to infiltrate Kazi's forces and assassinate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671721305
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

An enjoyable post-holocaust survivalist/war novel.

The thing I found most interesting about this book was Dalmas' description of his hero's day-to-day life and travels in the European wilderness. The author's ability to transport me there was strong, and his knowledge of ancient Scandinavian culture seems quite convincing to my unschooled ear. For Dalmas has invented a world where his Neo-Vikings live in tribes, and wander to towns and cities ruled by warrior kings, and where the hero Nils Jarnhaan earns the wrath of an evil king. Nils suffers a terrible setback which he tries to circumvent. And so the saga begins. This book includes the first 2 novels in the Yngling saga: The Yngling and Homecoming, along with some bridging material which explains the holocaust. I found them highly readable.