A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield, The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.

 It 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 Bloody Ground

"A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense."-Philadelphia Inquirer"Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller."-Orlando SentinelThe New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has been called, "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" (Washington Post). He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with Scoundrel, a contemporary tale of excitement and danger on high and treacherous seas. A gripping tale of an outlaw yacht captain who decides to cross the Irish Republican Army for a $5 million payday only to find himself pursued by intelligence agents, terrorists, and killers across perilous open waters, Scoundrel is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein-a masterwork of suspense from one of today's most versatile and accomplished popular novelists.

Scoundrel - A Novel of Suspense

The fourth in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell.

SWORD SONG - ALFRED SERIES 4

A unique novel, looking at one the greatest battles, a battle that was a turning point in history, from many points of view, by a master storyteller.

 Bernard Cornwell has been thinking about this subject for years. He has long wanted to write a book about a single battle, the events that lead up to it, the actual days in the battle and the aftermath from multiple viewpoints.

 Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispin's Day, is one of the best known battles, in part through the brilliant depiction of it in Shakespeare's Henry V, in part because it was a brilliant and unexpected English victory and in part because it was the first battle won by the use of the longbow. This was a weapon developed in this form only by the English - parishes were forced to train boys from as young as eight daily - and enabled them to dominate the European battlefields for the rest of the century.

 Lively historical characters abound on all sides but in Bernard Cornwell's hands the fictional characters, horsemen, archers, nobles, peasants are authentic and vivid, and the hour by hour view of the battle is dramatic and gripping.

Azincourt

Au Ve siècle de notre ère, les îles Britanniques sont assaillies par les Saxons. Les propagateurs du christianisme luttent contre les anciens dieux païens. Un " roi des rois ", Uther Pendragon, maintient une unité fragile entre des tribus et royaumes autonomes. À sa mort, seul Arthur, son fils illégitime, peut tenir le même rôle. Génial chef de guerre, politique habile, entouré de partisans fidèles et protégé par Merlin, Arthur va entreprendre de sauver son peuple menacé et d'édifier un royaume solide. Bernard Cornwell fait revivre cette figure légendaire, sous la forme d'un récit romanesque rigoureusement documenté. Deux autres volumes parachèveront son histoire : L'Ennemi de Dieu et Excalibur.

La saga du roi Arthur Tome I: Le roi de l'hiver

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

It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal, is sent to look for Kate Savage. But before he can discover the missing girl, the French onslaught on Portugal begins and the city of Oporto falls.

Sharpe's Havoc

*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

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.

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