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The third installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, 'like Game of Thrones, but real' ( The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The year is 878. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has helped the Saxons of Wessex defeat the invading Danes. Now, finally free of his allegiance to the victorious, ungrateful King Alfred, he is heading home to rescue his stepsister, a prisoner of Kjartan the Cruel in the formidable Danish stronghold of Dunholm. Uhtred's best hope is his sword, Serpent-Breath, for his only allies are Hild, a West Saxon nun fleeing her calling, and Guthred, a slave who believes himself king. Rebellion, chaos, fear, and betrayal await them in the north, forcing Uhtred to turn once more, reluctantly, to the liege he formerly served in battle and blood: Alfred the Great.

• Antonia (with Teresa Moreno) • Patrick-Henri Lassan (with Lucille Castineau) • Dominique Lassan (with Lucille Castineau) Nationality Sharpe is a series of stories by centered on the character of Richard Sharpe. The stories formed the basis for featuring in the title role.

Cornwell's series is composed of several novels and short stories, and charts Sharpe's progress in the during the. He begins in as a in the who becomes a Sergeant by the end of the book; he is an Ensign in the during who is transferred to the newly formed as a second lieutenant. He is gradually promoted through the ranks, finally becoming a in.

Acca Software Certus Crack there. The character of Sharpe is born a guttersnipe in the of London, and the stories dramatize his struggle for acceptance and respect from his fellow officers and from the men whom he commands. He is commissioned an officer on the battlefield and overcomes class in an army where an officer's rank is often. He is an experienced soldier, unlike many of the officers with whom he serves. Sharpe is described as 'brilliant but wayward' in, and he is portrayed by the author as a 'loose cannon'.

He is a highly skilled leader of light troops who takes part in a range of historical events during the Napoleonic Wars and other conflicts, including the. He is considered dangerous to have as an enemy; he is a skilled marksman and grows to be a good swordsman.

The books were published in non-chronological order, but in most of them he is a rifle officer armed with a and a, although he has also acquired a pistol by Sharpe's Waterloo. He is described as being six feet tall with an angular, tanned face, long black hair, and blue eyes. His most obvious physical characteristic is a deep scar on his right cheek which pulls at his right eye, giving his face a mocking expression when relaxed; this disappears when he smiles, which is not too frequently. By the end of the series, he has had three children and two wives.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • Early years [ ] Richard Sharpe was born in circa 26 June 1777 (he believes that he may be 22 during the early months of 1799) to a prostitute residing in 'Cat Lane', and an unknown father. When Sharpe is three, his mother is killed in the, leaving him an orphan. With no other known relatives to claim him, Sharpe is deposited in Jem Hocking's foundling home at Brewhouse Lane,, where he spends his days picking his assigned quota of. He is malnourished and regularly beaten, resulting in his being undersized for his age. Because of this, he is eventually sold to a master to train as an apprentice at the relatively late age of 12.

Fearing the high mortality rate among apprentice sweeps (who are forced to climb inside chimneys and remove the soot by hand), Sharpe flees to the of (a form of slum), and is taken in by prostitute (and later bar-owner) Maggie Joyce. He stays under Maggie's protection for three years, learning various forms of thieving.

After killing a gang leader during a fight over Maggie, he escapes from to at the age of fifteen (by creating this back story, made the actor Sean Bean's Yorkshire accent part of the of the series). It is possible that Sharpe learned to play cricket in Yorkshire, as in Sharpe's Waterloo the Duke of Wellington attests that 'Sharpe bowls fiendish'. He also played while training with the Rifles at, ( ). Within six months of his arrival in Yorkshire, Sharpe kills a second man, the landlord of the tavern where he is working, in a fight over a local girl. To avoid arrest, Sharpe takes the ', joining the, as a result of the blandishments of. The regiment (popularly known as 'The Havercakes', due to the the recruiting sergeants display on their bayonets to attract hungry potential recruits) is first sent to in 1794, where Sharpe fights in his first battle,. The next year, he and his regiment are posted to under the command of the.