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"At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred's great warrior but now out of favor with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian...

"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For thequiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge, one from the North and...

Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, a Confederate hero at Manassas, is in the thick of Civil War action. Nate finds himself accused of being a Yankee spy. Proving his innocence and finding the real spy will require courage and endurance.

In 1811, while aiding Spain in its quest to seek independence from Napoleon's France in the Peninsular War, Captain Richard Sharpe and his company stumble upon a small, decimated village. There, they find a unit of renegade French troops raping a small girl. Much to his horror, Sharpe discovers that many of the villagers have either been raped or mercilessly killed. As a result, Sharpe kills all the captured French soldiers and takes the looming...