Uthred n'a que neuf ans quand il devient comte, à la mort de son père. Mais les Vikings qui ont massacré sa famille et pillé la terre de ses ancêtres ont un autre dessein pour lui. Uthred grandira à leurs côtés, respectera leurs dieux terrifiants et sanguinaires, combattra leurs ennemis et protégera leurs drakkars. Écartelé entre un peuple d'adoption et son royaume d'origine, Uthred devra faire un choix déchirant: pourra-t-il bouter hors d'Angleterre ceux qui l'ont aimé comme un fils?

Le Dernier Royaume (The Saxon Stories #1)

The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation.

Death of kings

*A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now*

 War of the Wolf is the 11th book in the epic and bestselling series that has gripped millions.

 A hero will be forged from this broken land.

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 Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg knows that peace is far from reach. Though he has won the battle for his ancestral home, rebellion looms in Mercia and invading Norsemen appear at every turn.

 With the country in turmoil, Uhtred comes face-to-face with King Skoll, a violent Norseman leading an army of úlfheðinn, or wolf warriors, hellbent on seizing a kingdom - and killing any in his path.

 Surrounded and outnumbered by new enemies, Uhtred must call on all his skill and courage to survive, and prevent his beloved Northumbria from falling to the Viking hordes.

War of the Wolf

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

La saga épique à l'origine de la série Netflix The Last KingdomIXe siècle. Uhtred, le fils dépossédé d'un seigneur anglais, a vaillamment repoussé aux côtés des siens l'impitoyable invasion viking. Désormais libéré de son allégeance au roi Alfred le Grand, mais sans terres ni titre, le jeune homme revient sur ses terres natales pour réclamer son dû. Or il ne peut compter que sur sa légendaire épée, car seuls un esclave et une nonne l'accompagnent. Et dans le Nord, le chaos, l'horreur et la trahison les accueillent, forçant Uhtred à se tourner de nouveau vers son ancien souverain... 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« Magnifique. » Entertainment Weekly« Splendide. Cornwell revisite l'Histoire avec un talent consommé. » Publishers Weekly

Les Seigneurs du Nord - The Last Kingdom, T3

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.

The Starbuck Chronicles - The Complete 4-Book Collection

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

Enter a world where bloody battles, and heroic deeds combine in the historic struggle to unite Britain in the face of a common enemy.  The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's King Alfred series, follows on from the outstanding previous novels The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman.

LORDS OF THE NORTH - ALFRED SERIES

Thomas of Hookton, having survived the battle of Crécy, is sent by the king on a mission to discover more about his father's strange inheritance, which rumored to be connected to the Holy Grail. But he is not the only person pursuing it and his rivals will stop at nothing. Now the holder of great knowledge, he is in even greater danger, facing at last his enemy and cousin, the elusive Guy of Vexille.

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