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Sharpe. Sharpe's peril. Episode 1
It's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India. 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. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison.
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Sharpe. Sharpe's peril. Episode 2
It's India, 1818 and Lt Col Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Major Patrick Harper are travelling across India. 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. As the dust settles, it becomes apparent there have been many casualties and Sharpe realises that he is the only person now capable of getting this wagon train to the safety of the next army garrison.
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The last kingdom : a novel
The first in a series of novels exploring the \"little known story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son, and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms\"--Amazon.com.
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Bernard Cornwell’s fantasy dinner: Joanna Lumley charms the First Duke of Wellington
Smith can be relied upon to tease out answers to so many questions about Shaksper’s life, not the least of which is why the six surviving authenticated signatures of his name are all spelt in different ways (not one of which is “Shakespeare”). [...]I still needed a fifth guest with the wit and intelligence to draw everyone about the table into a conversation ripe with gossip and indiscretion. Poor Franklin splutters about the constitution and how that document should have prevented such horror, but Shaksper reprimands him, saying that the American garden was evidently unweeded, which only encouraged such rank and gross things in nature.
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Waterloo : the history of four days, three armies and three battles
From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo. 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 be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour by hour account of that fateful day. In his first work of non-fiction, Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields. Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington, as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe.
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