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.

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*SHARPE'S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*

 Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures.

 Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

 When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo of Mysore's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, which in turn offers an escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill.

 Richard Sharpe and the battle of Assaye, September 1803

 Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the Mahratta Confederation. In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, Sharpe penetrates deep into enemy territory where he is followed relentlessly by his worst enemy, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill.

 Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803

 Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India. Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly made an officer, wishing he had stayed a sergeant.

Sharpe 3-Book Collection 1 - Sharpe’s Tiger, Sharpe’s Triumph, Sharpe’s Fortress

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Harlequin, this is the second instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.

 In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which linked him to a family of heretical French lords who sought Christendom's greatest relic.

 Having survived the battle of Crécy, Thomas is sent back to England, charged with finding the Holy Grail. But Thomas is an archer and when a chance comes to fight against an army invading northern England he jumps at it. Plunged into the carnage of Neville's Cross, he is oblivious to other enemies who want to destroy him. He discovers too late that he is not the only person pursuing the grail, and that his rivals will do anything to thwart him.

 After hunting and wounding him, Thomas's enemies turn him into a fugitive. Fleeing England, he travels to Normandy, determined to rescue Will Skeat, his old commander from Harlequin. Finally Thomas leads his enemies back to Brittany, where he goes to discover an old love and where his pursuers at last trap their reluctant pilgrim.

 Vagabond is a vivid and realistic portrait of England at a time when the archer was king of Europe's battlefields.

Vagabond

VAGABOND

*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.

 As seen on Netflix and BBC around the world.

 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

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

La saga épique à l'origine de la série Netflix The Last KingdomAlors que s'achève le IXe siècle, Alfred le Grand agonise, son rêve d'unifier l'Anglie est menacé et son royaume au bord du chaos. Bien que son fils Edward ait été désigné comme son successeur, d'autres Saxons prétendent au trône, tout comme d'ambitieux Vikings païens dans le nord. Déchiré entre son serment à Alfred et son désir de reprendre les terres ancestrales du nord qu'il a perdues dans son enfance, Uhtred, né Saxon et élevé en Viking, demeure le guerrier du roi, mais il n'a pas prêté allégeance au prince héritier. Il doit désormais faire un choix capital qui changera pour toujours sa vie et le cours de l'Histoire : prendre les armes - et le manteau d'Alfred - ou poser son épée et laisser le rêve d'unification du royaume mourir avec son suzerain. 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

La Mort des rois - The Last Kingdom, T6

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

This special edition Ebook features exclusive extra content by the author, with an extended Historical Note and two contemporary accounts of the Battle of Poitiers.

 Go with God and Fight like the Devil.

 The Hundred Years War rages on and the bloodiest battles are yet to be fought. Across France, towns are closing their gates, the crops are burning and the country stands alert to danger. The English army, victorious at the Battle of Crécy and led by the Black Prince, is invading again and the French are hunting them down.

 Thomas of Hookton, an English archer known as Le Bâtard, is under orders to seek out the lost sword of St Peter, a weapon said to grant certain victory to whoever possesses her. As the outnumbered English army becomes trapped near the town of Poitiers, Thomas, his men and his sworn enemies meet in an extraordinary confrontation that ignites one of the greatest battles of all time.

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