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Sword of Kings
Sword of Kings © 2019 Bernard Cornwell 334 pages “Tighten the sail!” I shouted. The trap was sprung, and now the snake would discover how the wolf and the eagle fought. p. 19 Uhtred of Bebbanburg has been fighting all … Continue reading
The Lone Warrior
The Lone Warrior© 2016 Paul Fraser Collard384 pages The time for grand strategy was over. The moment had come to put faith in an Enfield rifle, a steel bayonet and the exhausted and bloodied soldier who stood behind it. Jack … Continue reading
The Devil’s Assassin
The Devil’s Assassin© 2015 Paul Fraser Collard336 pages Jack was filled with the madness. He could feel it searing through his veins. It resonated deep in his soul, every fibre of his being tingling with the insanity of galloping … Continue reading
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Tagged Central Asia, historical fiction, Paul Fraser Collard
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The Maharajah’s General
The Maharajah’s General© 2013 Paul Fraser Collard339 pages In The Scarlet Thief, an ambitious but impoverished redcoat saw a way for himself out of the gutter when the officer he served as an orderly became deathly ill on a sea … Continue reading
Scarlet
Scarlet© 2007 Stephen Lawhead443 pages Young William Scatlock has been reduced to a landless vagrant, courtesy of malevolent Norman lords and their toadies. It seems as good an occasion as any to trek west and join forces with a phantom … Continue reading
War of the Wolf
War of the Wolfpub. 2018 Bernard Cornwell333 pages Uhtred of Bebbanburg is called a priest-killer, a chief of devils. And yet when a distressed and scarred monk came to his gates and begged that he send help to Mercia, beset … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-Saxons, Bernard Cornwell, Britain, historical fiction, Medieval
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