A lost legacy puts one of England's great families in mortal peril .

 Lazen Castle, home to the much-envied Lazender family, is a house under siege. The heir is abroad, pursuing his own adventures, so the family estates fall under the control of his sister, Campion. Meanwhile, The Fallen Angels, a powerful and dangerous secret society in Europe, need the Lazender fortune to bring their rebellion to England.

 Surrounded by deceit, Campion draws ever closer to a subtle trap that has been laid for her, her only hope being Gypsy - her brother's aloof horse-master, whose loyalties have always been uncertain.

 In this powerful blend of passion, adventure and intrigue, the second chronicle of the great Lazender family comes to life.

Fallen Angels

Historical adventure/Historical fictionContinuing the story of Richard Sharpe's early army career in India. It is 1803 and following his successes portrayed in Sharpe's Tiger, the young sergeant is on the trail of a renegade East India Company officer.

Sharpe's Triumph

#1 Bestseller in the U. K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought-a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history. In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles-as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end. Published to coincide with the battle's bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy-and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.

Waterloo - The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

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 Welcome to The Last Kingdom

 Discover the first book in the epic, bestselling series that has gripped millions.

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

 In a land torn apart by conflict, an orphan boy has come of age. Raised by the Vikings, deadly enemies of his own Saxon people, Uhtred is a fierce and skilled warrior who kneels to no-one.

 Alfred - Saxon, king, man of god - fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners.

 Uhtred and Alfred's fates are tangled, soaked in blood and blackened by the flames of war. Together they will change history.

The Last Kingdom

Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. This book is set in England during the reign of King Alfred.

THE LAST KINGDOM - ALFRED SERIES

A dramatic new departure for international bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, FOOLS AND MORTALS takes us into the heart of the Elizabethan era, long one of his favourite periods of British history.

 'With all the vivid history that is his trademark, Bernard Cornwell transports the readers to the playhouses, backstreets and palaces of Shakespeare's London with added depth and compassion' Philippa Gregory

 In the heart of Elizabethan England, young Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in the London playhouses, dominated by his older brother, William. But as a penniless actor with a silver tongue, Richard's onetime gratitude begins to sour, as does his family loyalty.

 So it is that Richard falls under suspicion when a priceless manuscript goes missing, forcing him into a high-stakes game of duplicity and betrayal, and through the darkest alleyways of the city.

 In this richly portrayed tour de force, Fools and Mortals takes you among the streets and palaces, scandals and rivalries, and lets you stand side-by-side with the men and women of Bernard Cornwell's masterful Elizabethan London.

Fools and Mortals

It is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young Redcoat Sam Gilpin has seen his brother die. Now he must choose between duty to a distant king and the call of his own conscience. And for the men and women of the prosperous Becket family, the Revolution brings bitter conflict between those loyal to the crown and those with dreams of liberty. Soon, across the fields of ice and blood in a place called Valley Forge, history will be rewritten, changing the lives and fortunes of these men and women forever.

Redcoat

La saga épique à l'origine de la série Netflix The Last KingdomAu IXe siècle, les féroces Vikings débarquent sur le sol saxon, avides de conquête et de destruction. Aucun royaume ne résiste au raz-de-marée barbare, à l'exception d'un seul. Bientôt le destin de toute l'Angleterre - et le cours de l'Histoire elle-même - reposera sur les épaules d'un homme. Uhtred, un jeune guerrier saxon aux origines nobles déchiré entre deux vies, deux voies, deux peuples : celui des Vikings qui l'ont élevé comme l'un des leurs après l'avoir arraché à sa famille, et celui de son sang et de ses origines...Une fresque flamboyante mêlant bravoure, trahison, loyauté et combats au coeur de l'une des périodes les plus fascinantes de l'Histoire.
 « Game of Thrones dans le monde réel. » The Observer

Les chroniques saxonnes Tome 1 : le dernier royaume

La saga épique à l'origine de la série Netflix The Last Kingdom Servir ou régner ? Alors que la bataille pour l'Angleterre fait rage, Uhtred, guerrier, païen et ennemi juré des Vikings, se trouve à la croisée des chemins. Même si on lui a offert une couronne, il reste un homme de parole. Une parole qu'il a donnée au roi Alfred le Grand, qui rêve d'une Angleterre délivrée du joug des Vikings. Alors quand son souverain lui ordonne de reprendre Londres à l'ennemi et de l'offrir à son beau-fils Æthelred, un homme faible qui n'a rien d'un guerrier, Uhtred obéit... à regret. Car l'épouse d'Æthelred n'est autre que la fougueuse fille du roi, et son destin est intimement lié à celui d'Uhtred... qui devra choisir entre la voie du devoir et celle du coeur. Une fresque flamboyante mêlant bravoure, trahison, sens du devoir et combats au coeur de l'une des périodes les plus fascinantes de l'Histoire. " Game of Thrones dans le monde réel. " The Observer " Un petit miracle littéraire : année après année, Cornwell nous offre les romans historiques les plus passionnants et accessibles de sa génération. " Daily Mail

Les Chroniques saxonnes Tome 4

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 Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures.

 Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805

 Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. He is sailing with the Royal Navy, who are hunting a formidable French warship, the 'Revenant', carrying a secret treaty that may prove lethal to the British.

 Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807

 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, is offered a new job: go to Copenhagen, help deliver a bribe, and stop a war. To him, it seems easy. But the bribe is to stop the Danes allowing the French to possess their battle fleet, big enough to replace every warship lost at Trafalgar.

 Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809

 Britains's forces are retreating towards Corunna during a bitter winter, with Napoleon's victorious armies in pursuit. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of Riflemen are cut off from the rest of the army and surrounded.

Sharpe 3-Book Collection 3 - Sharpe’s Trafalgar, Sharpe’s Prey, Sharpe’s Rifles

The eighteenth novel in this bestselling adventure series takes Richard Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen.

Sharpe's Prey

A Richard Sharpe short story, featuring scenes of action and adventure at Christmas.

 'You'll like Irati, ' Colonel Hogan said. 'It's a nothing place, Richard. Hovels and misery, that's all it is and all it ever will be, but that's where you're going for Christmas.'

 Sharpe was sent to Irati because maybe the French were going there. The garrison planned to march at Christmas in the hope that their enemies would be too bloated with beef and wine to fight, but Hogan had got wind of their plans and was now setting his snares on the only two routes that the escaping French could use. One, the eastern road, was by far the easier route, for it entered France through a low pass, and Hogan guessed it was that route that the French would choose. But there was a second road, a tight, hard, steep road, and that had to be blocked as well and so the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers, Sharpe's regiment, would climb into the hills and spend their Christmas at a place of hovels and misery called Irati.

 Soldier, hero, rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

Sharpe’s Christmas

Guerre d'Espagne, Talavera de la Reina, Juillet 1809. Placé sous les ordres du colonel Simmerson, un officier britannique aussi incompétent qu'ambitieux, le lieutenant Richard Sharpe doit recourir à l'insubordination pour sauver son régiment d'une attaque meurtrière des Français. Son intervention décisive n'empêche pourtant pas la victoire de leurs chasseurs à cheval, qui parviennent à capturer l'un des deux drapeaux du régiment britannique. Accusé par le colonel Simmerson d'avoir provoqué cette disgrâce, Richard Sharpe ne voit qu'un seul moyen de restaurer son honneur tout en continuant à servir au mieux les intérêts de sir Arthur Wellesley, commandant en chef de l'armée britannique en Espagne : capturer une " aigle " de l'armée française lors de la prochaine offensive alliée sur Madrid et s'illustrer ainsi par un acte de bravoure extraordinaire.

L'aigle de Sharpe - Richard Sharpe et la campagne de Talavera, juillet 1809

The second installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.At the end of The Last Kingdom, The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long. The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England’s four kingdoms—and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes. Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways. But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred’s life, he is forced to consider feelings he’s never confronted before—and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new-found loyalty and love for his native country and ruler.

Le quatrième cavalier

Bernard Cornwell, né le 23 février 1944 à Londres en Angleterre, est un auteur britannique de nombreux romans historiques.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cornwell

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