Bernard Cornwell
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time. The novels tell the epic story of the birth of England and introduces one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel. In this ... compendium, Bernard Cornwell revisits Uhtred's realm, illuminating elements of the Anglo-Saxon world he couldn't fully explore in his novels. Uhtred's Feast offers...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
"Three brothers--deadly rivals--are uneasily united in their quest to create a temple to their gods. ... [Lengar, Camaban, and Saban] begin erecting their mighty ring of granite, aligning towering stones to the movement of the heavenly bodies, and raising arches to appease and unite their gods."--Jacket.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Der Kriegsheld Richard Sharpe bekommt es an Heiligabend des Jahres 1815 mit einem ganz persönlichen Fall zu tun: der Entführung seiner Frau. Sharpes Weihnacht und Sharpes Lösegeld sind zwei Kurzgeschichten, die ursprünglich für die "Daily Mail" geschrieben worden sind und bei Bastei Lübbe erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegen. Hören Sie in diesem Hörbuch die neu überarbeitete Fassung von Sharpes Lösegeld.
50) 1356: a novel
Author
Series
Grail quest volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
Author
Series
Sharpe novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Spain, 1812. Richard Sharpe, the most brilliant--but the most wayward soldier in the British army, finds himself faced with an impossible task.Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost. And only Sharpe--with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on--stands in their way...
52) Sharpe's peril
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1818 India, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are traveling across India, escorting the beautiful Marie-Angélique Bonnet to meet her fiancé. While in bandit-plagued badlands, they come across the very dregs of the Crown's troops : an ill disciplined, rag-tag unit led by boy soldier Beauclare. As Sharpe and company sit down to have dinner with their hosts, the camp comes under attack by the notorious bandit Chitu. When...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The re-telling of the valiant story of King Alfred the Great and his desire to unite many separate kingdoms into what would become England. Combining real historical figures and events with fictional characters, it is the story of how a people reclaimed their land from the invading Vikings and built a place they call home.
"The year is 872, and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes, leaving...