Sharpe's Devil

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 The battle begins: books 1 and 2 in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

 As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

 The beginning of the tale of Uhtred. Uhtred is born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia. So ends The Last Kingdom.

 The Pale Horseman takes place right afterwards in the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred's kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom.

 The Lords of the North sees Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north to find his stepsister. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred's help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.

The Last Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2 - The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman

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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

Après avoir conquis Ciudad Rodrigo, l'armée anglo-portugaise fait route vers Badajoz, une redoutable ville fortifiée défendue par les Français et qui barre la route de Madrid. Mais pour Richard Sharpe, l'enjeu des combats à venir n'est pas seulement stratégique. Afin de reprendre le commandement de sa compagnie, confiée à un officier plus riche et plus influent que lui, et de se préserver du sergent Hakeswill, son vieil ennemi tout juste débarqué d'Angleterre, il veut s'illustrer dans l'assaut donné à la forteresse en menant une colonne d'" Enfants perdus " dans l'une des brèches de la muraille. Cet acte de bravoure lui permettrait de retrouver sa dignité, mais aussi de voler au secours de ceux qu'il aime et qui, cachés dans la ville, sont en danger de mort.

La compagnie de Sharpe - Richard Sharpe et le siège de Badajoz, janvier-avril 1812

The  first book  in the  epic and bestselling series  that has gripped millions.  A hero will be forged from this broken land.  As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.  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 - THE WARRIOR CHRONICLES BOOK 1

Start the epic journey today.

 This is the ultimate collection: the first six books in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

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 THE LAST KINGDOM, THE PALE HORSEMAN, THE LORDS OF THE NORTH, SWORD SONG, THE BURNING LAND, DEATH OF KINGS.

 Uhtred, born into Saxon aristocracy in ninth-century Northumbria is orphaned at ten. He is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault.

 The Last Kingdom Series is an epic series from the master of historical fiction, that tells the tale of Alfred the Great, his descendants, and the Viking enemies they face. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between Christianity and paganism is the background to this outstanding series of how England was made - and very nearly lost.

The Last Kingdom Series Books 1-6

Bernard Cornwell's bestselling series The Starbuck Chronicles, on the American Civil War, now in one complete eBook for the first time.

 REBELIt is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America's civil war. Nathanial Starbuck arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment. He is a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.

 COPPERHEADNathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America's Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. His journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly high command of the northern army.

 BATTLE FLAGThe epic battle for control of the Confederate capital continues through the hot summer of 1862. It's a battle that Captain Nate Starbuck, a Yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win.

 THE BLOODY GROUNDIt is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.

 Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher's son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion - a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.

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 The eighth book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

 As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

 In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.

 The ruler of Mercia is dying, leaving no apparent heir. His wife is a born leader, but no woman has ever ruled over an English kingdom. And she is without her greatest warrior and champion, Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

 An empty throne leaves the kingdom exposed to rival West Saxons and to the Vikings, who are on a bloody rampage once more.

 A hero is needed, a hero who has been in battle all his life, who can destroy the double threat to Mercia. A hero who will ultimately decide the fate of a nation.

The Empty Throne

La campagne de Vitoria, février à juin 1813. En ce printemps 1813, le commandant Richard Sharpe fonde de grands espoirs sur la nouvelle offensive militaire de l'armée britannique en Espagne. Mais la victoire finale repose sur la fragile alliance entre l'Espagne et la Grande-Bretagne, une alliance qui doit être maintenue à tout prix. Pierre Ducos, maître espion de Sa Majesté l'Empereur, va cependant tout mettre en oeuvre pour saborder les relations entre les deux pays et, parallèlement, se venger d'un terrible affront que Richard Sharpe lui a infligé par le passé. Sharpe, mis au ban de l'armée britannique, traqué par les partisans espagnols, pourchassé, par les Français, va devoir puiser dans ses dernières ressources pour dénouer les fils d'un incroyable complot susceptible d'entraîner la dislocation de l'alliance et de ternir à jamais son honneur. Il est encore loin d'imaginer que tous ces événements mèneront à l'une des batailles les plus étonnantes de la guerre de la Péninsule : la bataille de Vitoria.

Sharpe's Devil

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