Cornwells third and most dramatic volume in the Saxon Chronicles is the story of the creation of modern England, as the English and the Danes become one people by sharing language and fighting side by side.
This is the continuing story of Arthur, the second in a trilogy which began with "The Winter King". The novels bring Arthur and his world to vivid life. A man battling for his vision of the future in a brutal age, dragged down by suspicions and magics of the past, surrounded by intrigue, dependent on his skill at war and genius for leadership.
The sequel to the "New York Times" bestseller "The Last Kingdom" continues the exhilarating adventures of Uhtred and King Alfred the Great. Uhtred discovers--in his moment of greatest peril--a newfound loyalty and love for his native country and ruler.
A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt.
The "Washington Post" has hailed "Sharpe's Battle" as a book that "combines those strengths that have come to characterize Bernard Cornwell's fiction--immaculate historical reconstruction and the ability to tell a ripping yarn."
One of England's most dramatic victories, the battle of Agincourt is more than just history; it was immortalized by Shakespeare in "Henry V." Cornwell, the greatest writer of historical adventures today ("Washington Post") tackles this most thrilling and rich subject.
Thomas of Hookton, a young archer fighting on the side of King Edward III in the Hundred Years War, is the protagonist of Cornwell's historical novel. He rescues a woman called Blackbird from assault by the evil Sir Simon Jekyll, whom he then devotes his life to trying to exterminate. Then Blackbird leaves him for the Prince of Wales.
A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, "Excalibur" begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of Arthur's marriage to Guinevere. The Saxons, sensing the disunity of the Britons, seize the chance to destroy Arthur. The climax of the war comes with the legendary triumph at Mount Badon, and Arthur's great victory. But the ...
Bernard Cornwell's 19th Sharpe adventure takes our hero to Oporto, where he must cope not only with the heady Portuguese wine but also with Napoleon's troops, a beautiful heiress, and an evil colonel.
Sharpe, having just received his commission, faces his toughest battle yet in this return to India, the terrain of the bestselling Sharpe's Tiger. Repackaged in the fantastic new Sharpe look. It is 1803 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India. Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, ...
The fourth in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred's kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London. It is a dangerous time, and ...
This is the first installment in a new series, in which the life story of a fictional vassal to Alfred the Great of Wessex serves as a vehicle to recount the history of the late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon king. The Danish Viking Ragnar kills the brother of Uhtred, the 10-year-old son of an Earl in the kingdom of Northumbria, and kidnaps Uhtred ...
Richard Sharpe, Cornwell's popular and adventurous hero, returns in this new historical thriller that leads him on a dangerous mission to South America and to a momentous encounter with Napoleon. Sharpe's Devil weaves a tale of treachery and heroics so real, and a plot so ingenious, readers will be entranced.
Major Sharpe should be fighting the French -- but his worst enemies are in England...Major Richard Sharpe's men were in mortal danger -- not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements could be brought from England, the depleted South Essex would be disbanded, their troops scattered throughout the army. Determined ...
This is the long-awaited twenty-first novel in the number one bestselling series featuring Richard Sharpe. In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life ...
The third volume of Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series begins in 1347, when an archer named Thomas, who has long sought the legendary Holy Grail, travels with a group of soldiers to his father's ancestral land to take possession of a castle there--hoping in the process to capture his cousin Guy, who caused Thomas's father's death. The ensuing ...
The latest in Cornwell's series about the master archer Thomas of Hookton takes him deep into the Hundred Years War to a monastery where he is sent by the king. Thomas is supposed to recover a diary filled with clues to the Holy Grail, but he becomes involved first with a bloodthirsty band of marauding Scotsmen and then the arch-sadist Dominican, ...
The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines. But he can't escape his Northern roots, and it is ...
Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back ...
Richard Sharpe and the French invasion of Galicia, January 1809. In the bitter winter of 1809 the French are winning the war in Spain and Britain's forces are retreating towards Corunna, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the British army and surrounded by enemy ...
When an old friend asks Nicholas Breakspear to captain one last cruise for his two teenaged children fighting cocaine addiction, Nick agrees--and sets off on a fateful cruise that pits him against lethal cocaine privateers that ends in a firefight on an island soon to be known as Murder Cay.
The bitter rivalry between Sharpe and the ruthless Frenchman Colonel Leroux is brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsular War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is a single man -- the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital ...
In this adventure, Cornwell's protagonist, Richard Sharpe, is marching with George III's army in India, where he finds himself in competition with his sadistic sergeant for the affections of a beautiful half-Indian widow.
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