A stand-alone battle book, set this time in the eighteenth-century in the rebellious colony of Massachusetts.

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Modern fiction/Historical fictionOriginally published under the name, Susannah Kells, this entertaining story, out of print for ten years, has been revealed as the work of the UK's best-known historical novelist.

Crowning Mercy

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.
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Les chroniques saxonnes Tome 6 : la mort des rois

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.
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Les Chroniques saxonnes, T1 : Le Dernier Royaume

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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.

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VAGABOND

With Calais in English hands, hostilities are suspended, but Thomas' quest to find the Holy Grail continues. His cousin Guy of Vexille still pursues him with deadly purpose, convinced that there is a link between Thomas and what he covets.So much depends on who will win this deadly game of hide and seek - and when the cousins at last come face to face, the war-torn countryside where they meet becomes a very Hell on earth. There has never been a greater need for a sign of God's favour, symbolized by the Grail and he who holds it.

L'hérétique

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.

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