Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The new novel in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2's major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. A fragile peace is about to be broken...King Alfred's son Edward and formidable daughter, Aethelflaed, rule Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. But all around the restless…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything. On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Go with God and Fight Like the Devil. A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power — this is the remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The fate of a young nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in the thrilling sixth volume of the New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. Following the intrigue and action of The Burning Land and Sword Song, this latest chapter in Bernard Cornwell's epic saga of England is a gripping tale of divided loyalties and mounting chaos. At a crucial moment in time, as Alfred the Great lays…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth. The Danes, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, smell opportunity! First comes Harald Bloodhair, a savage warrior leading a Viking horde, who is encouraged to cruelty by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord — warrior by instinct, Viking by nature — has finally settled down. He has land, a wife and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the formidable Danish stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred's best hope is his sword, Serpent-Breath, for his only…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 784 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 351) Аннотация: In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England — and the course of history — depended upon one man, one king. From New York Times bestselling storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a rousing epic adventure of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 059 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 405) Аннотация: In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail. Among the flames of the Hundred Years War, a sinister enemy awaits the fabled archer and mercenary soldier: a bloodthirsty Dominican Inquisitor who also seeks Christendom's most holy relic. But neither the horrors of the battlefield nor sadistic torture at the Inquisitor's hands can turn Thomas…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Thomas of Hookton doubts the Grail`s existence. But other folk fear the rumour of the grail`s existence and force Thomas to pursue the relic, while his enemies, faceless and ruthless, fear Thomas`s destiny and determine to destroy him.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Sharpe and Patrick Harper set sail for Chile in order to track down a friend gone missing. As a favor to Napoleon, they carry a seemingly harmless gift with them — one that embroils them in a web of conspiracy and danger.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: «The «Washington Post» has hailed «Sharpe's Battle» as a book that «combines those strengths that have come to characterize Bernard Cornwell's fiction — immaculate historical reconstruction and the ability to tell a ripping yarn».»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Throughout the series, there are references to Sharpe's early soldiering life in India. With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that is found in the Peninsular War books, Bernard Cornwell has sumptuously recreated the 1799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's Vitoria campaign with grim expectancy in this 17th book of his chronicles, from 1985. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain-an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. But Sharpe's enemy Pierre Ducos seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take a personal revenge on Sharpe. And when…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Amid rumors that Napoleon is dead, or has run away, Richard Sharpe has one last battle to fight before he can lay down his sword, in this 21st book of the Sharpe chronicles, from 1989. Little does he know the 1814 battle for Toulouse will be one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Napoleonic wars, but it is far from Sharpe's only battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's treasure, Sharpe must discover…