Bernard Cornwell, página 5 de 16

In the dark ages, a legendary warrior struggles to unite Britain...Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back the enemy at the gates, Arthur is embroiled in a doomed romance with beautiful Guinevere. Will the old-world magic of Merlin be enough to turn the tide of war in his favour?The first of Bernard Cornwell''s Warlord Chronicles, The Winter King sheds new light on the Arthurian legend, combining myth with historical accuracy and the brutal action of the battlefield.

Tras el desastroso fracaso en el ataque recibido en el fuerte portugués por tropas napoleónicas, en el que ha perdido a buena parte de sus hombres, la carrera del fusilero Richard Sharpe parece al borde de un abrupto y deshonroso fin.La unica posibilidad de evitarlo y de redimirse la tiene en el campo de batalla, y Sharpe no pretende dejar escapar la oportunidad. La tremenda batalla de Fuentes de Oñoro, en la que, durante tres lasrgos dias, se lucho por cada palmo de terreno, incluso puerta a puerta, sera una prueba memorable para el y sus hombres, aun cuando no se contaria entre los combates que mas tarde le gustaria recordar a Wellington, pues alli cometio un error estrategico garrafal...Como consecuencia de la batalla, el mariscal Massena, autoproclamdo "Hijo querido de la Victoria", fue convocado a Paris, y Napoleon no tardo en sustituirlo en el mando de las tropas francesas de la peninsula por el mariscal Marmont.Una vez mas, Cornwell nos traslada al corazon de unos acontecimientos apasionantes, en el marco de nuestras tierras, y nos hace participe de una de las grandes batallas, hasta tal punto que la abrir estas paginas puede percibirse aun el olor acre de la polvora.Adaptada a la pequeña pantalla, con un desenlace distinto, "La batalla de Sharpe" se cuenta entre las novelas de la serie mas valoradas y conocidas entre los aficionados.

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 Northmen, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy churches, are mounting raids. Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the kingdoms' greatest warrior, controls northern Mercia from the strongly fortified city of Chester. But forces are rising up against him. Northmen allied to the Irish, led by the fierce warrior Ragnall Ivarson, are soon joined by the Northumbrians, and their strength could prove overwhelming. Despite the gathering threat, both Edward and Aethelflaed are reluctant to move out of the safety of their fortifications. But with Uhtred's own daughter married to Ivarson's brother, who can be trusted? In the struggle between family and loyalty, between personal ambition and political commitment, there will be no easy path. But a man with a warrior's courage may be able to find it. Such a man is Uhtred,and this may be his finest hour.

Third volume in the bestselling Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862.Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead and dishonoured.Starbucks courage is tested to the limit in his desperate manoeuvres to retrieve his own and the Legions honour in this the thrid narrative of Bernard Cornwells sweeping epic of the American Civil War.

The first installment of Bernard Cornwells bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of Englandlike Game of Thrones, but real (The Observer, London)the basis for The Last Kingdom, a major television series airing in Fall 2015.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 Englandand the course of historydepended upon one man, one king.From New York Times bestselling storyteller Bernard Cornwell comes a rousing epic adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love, and battle as seen through the eyes of a young warrior who straddled two worlds.

Uhtred is an English boy, born into ninth-century aristocracy. Orphaned at ten, he is captured by the Danes and taught the Viking ways.But when Alfred, King of Wessex, leads an English army to fight the Viking warriors Uhtreds struggle to know where his loyalties lie must be resolved. In the bloodiest of battles he will discover his true allegiance and the conflict at the heart of a hero will be played out in the fight for England.

ALONE IN A SEA OF ENEMIES. BOUND TOGETHER BY LOYALTY, BELIEF AND DESPERATION.Wessex, led by the pious King Alfred, is the last Saxon stronghold against the savage strength of the Vikings. Now it is struggling for its very existence. Uhtred, a Saxon raised by Vikings, is no ordinary warrior. As sharp of mind as he is of sword, his lust for life and battle sits badly with Alfred and his priests. But they face dire odds and Uhtreds unique knowledge and fearlessness mean that he may be their only hope in the coming battle...

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue...The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent but then the hangman had never hung a guilty man, he said. But even in 1820, the Home Secretary could occasionally use his powers to grant mercy if his investigator found cause and Rider Sandman, once of the First Foot Guards, is given the job.Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has family debts to repay but when his first steps in the investigations produce a sizeable bribe to look the other way, this only arouses his smouldering anger over the condition of England, a country which he and others in Wellington''s army had fought to preserve. Stepping between gentlemen''s clubs and taverns, talking to aristocrats, fashionable painters, their models, and their mistresses, dodging professional cut-throats and deceptive swordsmen, Sandman uncovers a conspiracy of silence, a group whose proudest boast was that they would do anything for any one of them.Sandman is a wonderful character, as yet undaunted by the sleazy streets, dank jails or the looming scaffold, and uncorrupted by politicians, sneering gentlemen or frightening bruisers, an investigator in the making and a brilliant, but very different, hero for all Bernard Cornwell fans.

The brand 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. From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg.The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an island, it was massive, it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track and it was mine.Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria''s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia''s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce.And so England''s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago and which his scheming cousin still occupies.But fate is inexorable and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg.New enemies enter into the fight for England''s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain''s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation.But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birth right.He is the Lord of Bebbanburg, but he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true.

En 1811, en plena Guerra de la Independencia, han empiezado a surgir en España voces que defienden una ruptura con las tropas británicas y un acercamiento a Napoleón. Y el descubrimiento de unas comprometedoras cartas del embajador ingles a una prostituta no consiguen sino alentar esa propuesta.Entretanto, Cadiz esta sitiada por las tropas francesas de Claude Perrin Victor, y el fusilero Richard Sharpe, con la inestimable ayuda de sus camaradas Harper y Moon, recibe la orden de encontrar a la destinataria de las misivas y recuperar, a la vez, las mismas. Sin embargo, llegan a Andalucia en un mal momento, justo cuando las tropas a las ordenes de sir Thomas Graham se disponen a romper el cerco al que las lineas francesas han sometido a Cadiz.Una esplendida intriga, el endiablado ritmo narrativo tan caracteristico en Cornwell y el colorido que confiere a las escenas belicas se ponen aqui al servicio de uno de los episodios mas espectaculares de nuestra guerra de la Independencia: la batalla de Chiclana (5 de marzo de 1811)

XVI Entrega de la serie de Richard Sharpe En 1811, en plena Guerra de la Independencia, empiezan a surgir en España voces que defienden una ruptura con las tropas británicas y un acercamiento a Napoleon. El descubrimiento de unas comprometedoras cartas del embajador ingles destinadas a una prostituta no hacen sino alentar esa propuesta. En un Cadiz sitiado por las tropas francesas de Claude Perrin Victor, Richard Sharpe sera el encargado, con la inestimable ayuda de sus camaradas Harper y Moon, de encontrar a la destinataria de las misivas y recuperar esas cartas. Sin embargo, llegan a Andalucia en muy mal momento, cuando las tropas a las ordenes de sir Thomas Graham se disponen a romper el cerco al que las lineas francesas han sometido a Cadiz. Una esplendida intriga, el endiablado ritmo narrativo de Cornwell y el colorido que confiere a las escenas belicas se ponen aqui al servicio de uno de los episodios mas espectaculares de la Guerra de la Independencia, la batalla de Chiclana (5 de marzo de 1911).

Gebraucht -- Sehr gut, Gestempelt unterer Schnitt Mängelexemplar - Vorderer Einband leicht geknickt, - Ende des 9. Jahrhunderts haben die dänischen Eroberer alle fünf englischen Königreiche unterjocht. Das gesamte Land der Angelsachsen ist in der Gewalt der Invasoren - mit Ausnahme eines kleinen Sumpfgebietes. Hier hält sich König Alfred von Wessex mit wenigen Getreuen versteckt. Uhtred, Krieger in Alfreds Diensten, kennt die Übermacht des dänischen Heeres genau. Dennoch will Alfred eine letzte, entscheidende Schlacht führen. Der fromme König setzt dabei auf Gottes Hilfe, Uhtred hingegen vertraut lieber seinem kampferprobten Schwert. Über eines aber sind sich die beiden ungleichen Verbündeten vollkommen einig: Eine Niederlage wäre der Untergang Englands.

Los romanos por fin han abandonado Britania, y enseguida se ha desencadenado una lucha a muerte para cubrir el vacío de poder y, al mismo tiempo, los sajones aguardan en la frontera la ocasión para invadir el país. La muerte del rey supremo, Uther Pendragon, dejando como heredero al trono a Mordred, aún un bebé, no hace sino complicar la situación y acabar con el último atisbo de unidad. Sólo un hombre es capaz de hacerse cargo de la tutela del niño y evitar así que el reino caiga en manos de sajones o acabe arrasado por las luchas intestinas, y ese hombre es un hijo ilegítimo de Pendragon que vive en el exilio, un guerrero mítico protegido por el mago Merlín que responde al nombre de Arturo. Sumergirse en estas páginas es entrar en un mundo violento y despiadado, en una época convulsa de batallas, luchas y emboscadas, en las que de vez en cuando surgen personajes tan fascinantes como la reina Ginebra o el enigmático Lancelot, y el talento narrativo de Bernard Cornwell consigue que el lector sienta el peso de la cota de malla, oiga el fragor del combate y se lance a la carrera hacia un desenlace inesperado. En esta primera entrega de las Crónicas del señor de la guerra, Derfel, uno de los guerreros a las órdenes de Arturo que sirve de hilo conductor de la historia, adentra al lector en una época convulsa de sangre, fuego y acero.

'Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy' was the order given to the American soldiers. THE FORT is the blistering new novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell. Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort above a harbour to create a base from which to control the New England seaboard. Forty-one American ships and over nine hundred men. Their orders: to expel the British. The battle that followed was a classic example of how the best-laid plans can be disrupted by personality and politics, and of how warfare can bring out both the best and worst in men. It is a timeless tale of men at war, written by a master storyteller.

The master of historical fiction presents the iconic story of King Alfred and the making of a nation. As the ninth century wanes, England appears about to be plunged into chaos once more. For the Viking-raised but Saxon-born warrior, Uhtred, whose life seems to shadow the making of England, this presents him with difficult choices. King Alfred is dying and his passing threatens the island of Britain to renewed warfare. Alfred wants his son, Edward, to succeed him but there are other Saxon claimants to the throne as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Uhtred's loyalty -- and his vows -- were to Alfred, not to his son, and despite his long years of service to Alfred, he is still not committed to the Saxon cause. His own desire is to reclaim his long lost lands and castle to the north. But the challenge to him, as the king's warrior, is that he knows that he will either be the means of making Alfred's dream of a united and Christian England come to pass or be responsible for condemning it to oblivion. This novel is a dramatic story of the power of tribal commitment and the terrible difficulties of divided loyalties. This is the making of England magnificently brought to life by the master of historical fiction.

En sus ansias por reunir de una vez por todas los trece objetos sagrados esparcidos por toda Britania, Merlín y Nimue encargan a Derfel Cardan que obtenga el último de ellos: la mítica espada del rey Arturo, Excalibur. Dos terribles luchas en las que la religion y la politica estan inextricablemente ligadas estan a punto de resolverse.Mientras los hombres de Arturo se preparan para afrontar la batalla decisiva contra los sajones invocando a sus dioses, Merlin y Nimue inician un sangriento ritual que implica el sacrificio de un rey. Sin embargo, por extraños caminos en los que se cruza el cautiverio de Ginebra a manos de Morgana, los hechiceros y el rey Arturo uniran sus fuerzas para enfrentarse a una nueva invasion de Dumnonia emprendida por los sajones, cuyo desenlace sera la terrible y violentisima batalla de Camlann. La mitica isla de Avalon les espera al final de este tortuoso camino, pero no todos los heroes llegaran a ella.

Richard Sharpe and the campaign in northern Portugal, spring 1809. A small British army is stranded when the French invade northern Portugal. Sharpe is cut off and his attempts to fight his way back to the British lines fail until he is joined by the future Duke of Wellington. They immediately mount a counter-attack and Sharpe, having been the hunted, becomes the hunter once more. Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army, in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier, Sharpe takes his revenge.

At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fightUhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new, he doesnt 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 a legendary warrior, admired and sought as an ally, feared as an adversary finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies. Only the most astute cunning, the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him.For decades, Uhtred has stood at the intersection between Pagan and Christian, between Saxon and Viking, between the old world he was born into and the new world being forged around him. But as the winds of change gather pace, the pressure on Uhtred as father, as politician and as warrior grows as never before.

The bitter rivalry between Sharpe and the ruthless Frenchman Colonel Leroux is brought to life against the vivid canvas of the Peninsular War. Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is a single man -- the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. So Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue. And in the unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is the beautiful Marquesa -- a woman with her own secrets to conceal...The complete Sharpe collection