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Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia, rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control. In Wessex, rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king. And across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless incursion, ever hungry for land. Uhtred finds himself once again torn between...
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In 1820, Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo fallen on hard times, takes a job as a private investigator to re-open the case of a painter due to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. Soon Sandman is mired in a grisly murder plot that keeps thickening. He makes his way through gentlemen's clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions and fashionable painters' studios determined to rescue the innocent young man from the rope. But someone doesn't want...
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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.
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In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes sotrmed 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.
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The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest of all Britain. When King Alfred's daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood-soaked field beside the Thames.
8) Agincourt
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A tale inspired by the legendary battle of Agincourt finds the soldiers of Henry V rallying against disease, hunger, and formidable weather around longbowman Nicholas Hook, who in spite of his outlaw status fights for his country and the woman he loves.
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""The greatest writer of historical adventures today.""
—Washington Post
Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as ""the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian"" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers
...10) Rebel
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Nate Starbuck, the son of an abolitionist preacher in Boston, becomes stranded in Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War and his great respect for Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer, and an urge to rebel against his father, leads him to join Faulconer's Confederate legion.
11) Copperhead
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Nate Starbuck, a young Bostonian and a lieutenant in the Confederate Army, is accused of being a Yankee spy. To prove his innocence means getting behind enemy lines.
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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 man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy...
13) Battle flag
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Nate Starbuck, renegade Bostonian and now a Confederate officer, must now prove himself to his superior and lead his men in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
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