Книги автора Cornwell Bernard
Название: Sharpe's Revenge
Жанр: Daedalus Books
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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 the unknown enemy who has tried to frame him-and his revenge is ingenious and devastating. Bernard Cornwell grew up with the Hornblower novels, following C.S. Forester's fictional hero through Lord Nelson's navy during the Napoleonic wars, and created his army counterpart in Richard Sharpe, a rifleman in Lord Wellington's land campaign. Cornwell has produced 24 novels and stories in the series, which traces Sharpe's career from 1799 and the Siege of Seringapatam in India to an encounter with the exiled Napoleon himself in 1821, and inspired the British television series Sharpe, starring Sean Bean.
Название: Harlequin (Grail Quest 1)
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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Thomas of Hookton is one of those archers. When his village is sacked by French raiders, he makes a promise to God: to retrieve the relic stolen from Hooktons church. Escaping his fathers ambitions, he becomes a wild youth who delights in the life of an army on the warpath. Driven by his conscience and protected by his fearsome skills, he enters a world where lovers become enemies and enemies become friends, where his only certainty is that somewhere, beyond a horizon smeared with the smoke of fires set by the rampaging English army, a terrible enemy awaits him. This enemy would harness the power of Chistendoms greatest relic: the Grail itself. Here, in the first book of a new series, the quest begins. It leads him through the fields of France, to the village of Crecy where two great armies meet on the hillside to do battle.
Название: Vagabond (Grail Quest 2)
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2003
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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.
Название: Heretic (Grail Quest 3)
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2004
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In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the Grail, the most sacred of Christendom`s relics, and is sent to his homeland to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy.
Название: Pale Horseman
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2006
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Continuing the outstanding success of «The Last Kingdom», «The Pale Horseman» is the second installment of Bernard Cornwells fantastic series, following the fate of Alfred the Great, and the forging of Britain. It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset. There, forced to move restlessly to escape betrayal or detection, using the marsh mists for cover, they travel by small boats from one island refuge to another, hoping that they can regroup and find some more strength and support. Only Uhtred remains resolute. Determined to discover the enemys strategies, he draws once again on his Viking upbringing, and attempts to enter the Viking camps. His plan is to become accepted by their leaders, and to sit in their councils and uncover their plans. But once there, the attractions of his many friends among the Vikings coupled with his disillusion with the Saxons leadership and anger at Alfreds criticism of his own conduct, draws him back again to his allegiance to the Vikings. «The Pale Horseman», an even more powerful and dramatic book than «The Last Kingdom», brings both Uhtred and the Saxons dilemmas vividly to life.
Название: Last Kingdom (Alfred the Great 1)
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2005
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The first book in a brand new series, «The Last Kingdom» is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at ten, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtreds fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtreds growing up. He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side and he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfreds kingdom. Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife and child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion, Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea. There, in the horror of the shield-wall, he discovers his true allegiance. «The Last Kingdom», like most of Bernard Cornwells books, is firmly based on true history. It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great and his descendants and of the enemies they faced, Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless and his feared brother, Ubba. Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties, reluctant love and desperate heroism. In Uhtred, he has created one of his most interesting and heroic characters and in «The Last Kingdom» one of his most powerful and passionate novels.
Название: Lords of North (Alfred the Great 3)
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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The year is 878 and the Vikings have been thrown out of Wessex. Uhtred, fresh from fighting for Alfred in the battle to free Wessex, travels north to seek revenge for his father`s death, killed in a bloody raid by Uhtred`s old enemy, renegade Danish lord, Kjartan.
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