Conn Iggulden

Genudgivelse i paperback. Første bind i Conn Igguldens historiske romanserie følger den unge Temüdjiin, der efter faderens død, efterlades til sultedøden på de mongolske stepper, forrådt af sin fars nærmeste rådgivere. Men Temüdjiin overlever, og i 1206 kan han påberåbe sig rangen som Djengis Khan. En verdenshersker kan begynde sit erobringstogt.

Antiikin maailmassa yksi armeija herätti kauhua ylitse muiden. Tämä on heidän tarinansa. Eeppinen ja raivokas kertomus sankaruudesta historiallisen romaanin mestarilta. On vuosi 401 ennen ajanlaskun alkua. Persian kuningas Artakserkses hallitsee valtakuntaa, joka ulottuu Egeanmereltä Intiaan. Kuninkaan veli Kyyros yrittää syrjäyttää holtittoman Artakserkseen. Hän kokoaa palkkasoturiarmeijan, jonka ytimessä ovat urhoolliset spartalaiset.Yksi isku voi kuitenkin muuttaa taistelun suunnan. Kyyroksen joukot jäävät saarroksiin vihollisimperiumin sydämeen. Kaukana kotoa ja vihollisten keskellä nuoren sotilaan, Ksenofonin, on johdettava selviytyjät taisteluun Artakserkseen legendaarisia persialaissotilaita vastaan.

Historiallisen seikkailun mestari tietää miten lukija koukutetaan!Vauhdikkaan fantasiasarjan toisessa osassa kaksi muinaista kaupunkia ajautuu veriseen ja kohtalokkaaseen kiistaan.Shiangin kaupungissa nuori kuningas hallitsee rautaisella otteella. Miekkamiehet vartioivat jokaisessa kadunkulmassa havaitakseen pienimmänkin merkin tottelemattomuudesta. Silti yllättävä veriteko romahduttaa vuosisatojen järjestyksen, ja jotakin kammottavaa pääsee valloilleen kaupungin kaduilla.Samaan aikaan Shiangista lähtenyt miekkamestareiden joukko lähestyy Darienin kaupunkia. He aikovat noutaa vanhan miehen kotiin rangaistavaksi, eivätkä aio antaa minkään tai kenenkään seisoa tiellään.

Conn Iggulden returns with more information, insights, and diversions for boys from eight to eighty. This companion volume to The Dangerous Book for Boys includes more than seventy new chapters and important skills, fascinating historical information, and essential stories, including: How to pick a padlock Making a Flying Machine Tying a Windsor Knot Advice from Fighting Men Questions About the Law Chess Openings Making Perfume Maps of Historic Empires: British, Ottoman, Genghis, Persian, Medes, Babylonian, Alexander Great Speeches Forgotten Explorers How to Wire a Plug and Make a lamp Writing a Thank You Letter Polishing Shoes Parents looking to get their kids off screens can use this book to fill weekend afternoons and summer days with wonder, excitement, adventure, and fun--learn to build go-carts and electromagnets, identify insects and spiders, and fly the world's best paper airplanes. This charming and practical guide will ignite the imagination and stimulate curiosity, and provide grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers the opportunity to deepen their bonds. Conn Iggulden has at last put together a second wonderful collection that is the essence of boyhood.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Conn Iggulden returns with more information, insights, and diversions for boys from eight to eighty. This companion volume to The Dangerous Book for Boys includes more than seventy new chapters and important skills, fascinating historical information, and essential stories, including: How to pick a padlock Making a Flying Machine Tying a Windsor Knot Advice from Fighting Men Questions About the Law Chess Openings Making Perfume Maps of Historic Empires: British, Ottoman, Genghis, Persian, Medes, Babylonian, Alexander Great Speeches Forgotten Explorers How to Wire a Plug and Make a lamp Writing a Thank You Letter Polishing Shoes Parents looking to get their kids off screens can use this book to fill weekend afternoons and summer days with wonder, excitement, adventure, and fun--learn to build go-carts and electromagnets, identify insects and spiders, and fly the world's best paper airplanes. This charming and practical guide will ignite the imagination and stimulate curiosity, and provide grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers the opportunity to deepen their bonds. Conn Iggulden has at last put together a second wonderful collection that is the essence of boyhood.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Spark your imagination, forge your own adventures and unearth long-lost skills.

In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field--on the passage of a single day.At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome--from exile to exaltation. Through Dunstan's vision, by his guiding hand, England will either come together as one great country or fall back into anarchy and misrule . . .From one of our finest historical writers, The Abbot's Tale is an intimate portrait of a priest and performer, a visionary, a traitor and confessor to kings--the man who can change the fate of England.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes the long-awaited sequel - another action-packed adventure guide featuring full-color illustrations, perfect for dads, grads, and boys of all ages.The Double Dangerous Book for Boys is a treasure trove of the essential activities and skills that have defined generations of boyhoods, from building a treehouse to fishing to finding true north.Designed with the same nostalgic look and feel as the first book, this companion volume includes more than 70 new chapters and important skills, fascinating historical information, and captivating stories, including: How to pick a padlockMaking a Flying MachineTying a Windsor KnotAdvice from Fighting MenQuestions About the LawChess OpeningsMaking PerfumeMaps of Historic Empires: British, Ottoman, Genghis, Persian, Medes, Babylonian, AlexanderGreat SpeechesForgotten ExplorersHow to Wire a Plug and Make a lampWriting a Thank You LetterPolishing ShoesParents looking to reduce screen time and rediscover the great outdoors can use this book to fill weekend afternoons and summer days with wonder, excitement, adventure, and fun--learn to build go-carts and electromagnets, identify insects and spiders, and fly the world's best paper airplanes.This charming and practical guide, packed with hundreds of full-color charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations, will ignite the imagination and stimulate curiosity, and provide grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers the opportunity to deepen their bonds. Conn Iggulden has at last put together a second wonderful collection that is the essence of boyhood.

Conn Iggulden, the bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror and The Wars of the Roses series' returns to the Ancient World with a ferociously bloody epic . . . In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . . Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. Based on one of history's most epic stories of adventure The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed that was the Ancient World.

Based on one of history's most epic stories of adventure, The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed of the ancient world. Conn Iggulden, the New York Times bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror, and Wars of the Roses series, returns to the ancient world with a ferociously violent epic. 401 BC. In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . . Yet battles can be won--or lost--with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food, and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes's legendary Persian warriors.

Kaksitoista perhettä - yksi valtaistuin. Historiallisen seikkailun mestari koukuttaa lukijat fantasiasarjan avauksella, jossa valtataistelua käydään niin miekoin kuin loitsuin.12 mahtiperhettä pitää järjestystä yllä Darienin kaupungissa sotilaiden ja vakoojien voimin. Valtaistuimella on kuitenkin heikko kuningas, jonka salamurhaa kenraali Justan alkaa suunnitella. Likaisen työn tekijäksi hän kiristää metsästäjä Eliaksen, jolla on maagisia kykyjä.Samaan aikaan kuninkaan henkivartiokaartiin liittyy mykkä orpopoika Arthur, joka joka oppii minkä tahansa taistelutaidon ensinäkemältä. Kuka tai mikä Arthur oikein on? Kuka lopulta nousee Darienin valtaistuimelle?

England, 1470.Kung Edward av York har drivits ut ur England. Drottning Elizabeth och hennes barn har sökt skydd i Westminster Abbey. Familjen Lancaster har vunnit kronan.Edward av York vill återta tronen med alla medel och anländer till Ravenspur med en stukad armé och sin bror Richard vid sin sida.Men, när deras egentlige fiende Henry Tudor gör anspråk på tronen leder det till Bosworth Field och den strid som blir slutet för Rosornas krig.Ravenspur är den fjärde och avslutande delen i Conn Igguldens romanserie om Rosornas krig.

Penguin presents the audiobook CD of The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden, read by Michael Fox. In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others.401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute.The sons of Sparta, those whose fathers and grandfathers fell at Thermopylae and perished in the Peloponnesian Wars, work as mercenaries for Persian princes eager to play the game of thrones. When Cyrus the younger, brother to the Great King, lays claim to his father's crown, he does so with an elite army of Spartans at his side. Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors.Drawing on one of history's most epic stories of adventure, The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed that was the ancient World.

Flammesol er fjerde og sidste bind i den engelske forfatter Conn Igguldens handlingsmættede historiske romanserie om fejden mellem de to adelshuse York og Lancaster og kampen om den engelske trone, der kastede England ud i en tredive år lang borgerkrig, også kendt som Rosekrigene. England, 1470. Kong Edward af York er fordrevet fra England. Dronning Elizabeth og hendes barn har søgt beskyttelse i Westminster Abbey. Familien Lancaster har vundet tronen. Edward af York vil generobre tronsædet med alle midler og ankommer til Ravenspur med en forarmet hær og broren Richard ved sin side. Men da Henry Tudor, deres egentlige fjende, også gør krav på tronen, fører det til Bosworth og det slag, der i praksis bliver afslutningen på Rosekrigene.

From acclaimed historical writer Conn Iggulden comes a novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. Welcome to the original game for the English throne. The year is 937. England is a nation divided, ruled by minor kings and Viking lords. Each vies for land and power. The Wessex king Aethelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to throw a spear into the north. As would-be kings line up to claim the throne, one man stands in their way. Dunstan, a fatherless child raised by monks on the moors of Glastonbury Tor, has learned that real power comes not from God, but from discovering one's true place on Earth. Fearless in pursuit of his own interests, his ambition will take him from the courts of princes to the fields of battle, from exile to exaltation. For if you cannot be born a king, or made a king, you can still anoint a king. Under Dunstan's hand, England may come together as one country - or fall apart in anarchy ...From Conn Iggulden, one of our finest historical writers, Dunstan is an intimate portrait of a priest and murderer, liar and visionary, traitor and kingmaker - the man who changed the fate of England.

The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Bloodline, the gripping third novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. Winter 1461: Richard, duke of York, is dead--his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen, Margaret of Anjou, rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed the sons. Edward of March, now duke of York, proclaims himself England's rightful king. Factions form and tear apart as snow falls. Through blood and treason, through broken men and vengeful women, brother shall confront brother, king shall face king. Two men can always claim a crown--but only one can keep it. Following Margaret of Anjou, Bloodline is the third epic installment in master storyteller Conn Iggulden's new Wars of the Roses series. Fans of the Game of Thrones and the Tudors series will be gripped from the word "go."

King Edward of York has been driven out of England. Queen Elizabeth and her children tremble in sanctuary at Westminster Abbey. The House of Lancaster has won the crown, but York will not go quietly. Desperate to reclaim his throne, Edward lands at Ravenspur with a half-drowned army and his brother Richard at his side. Every hand is against them, every city gate is shut, yet the brothers York go on the attack. But neither sees that their true enemy is Henry Tudor, now grown into a man. As the Red Dragon - 'the man of destiny' - his claim to the throne leads to Bosworth Field and a battle that will call an end to the Wars of the Roses ...'A tough, pacy chronicle of bloody encounters, betrayals and cruelties. Superb' Daily Mail.'Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction' Daily Mirror 'Superb, fantastic, extraordinary' Sunday Express.

Vintern 1461. Richard, hertig av York, är död. Kung Henry VI är fortfarande fången och hans drottning rider söderut med sin segerrusiga armé. Med Yorks död tycks Margret ostoppbar. Men då hon dödade fadern släppte hon samtidigt loss sönerna. Edward av March är nu hertig av York och utropar sig till Englands rättmätiga kung.Två män kan göra anspråk på kronan, men bara en kan behålla den. Blodsfejden kan börja.Tredje delen i Conn Igguldens serie om det mytomspunna och blodiga engelska inbördeskriget Rosornas krig.

3. bind i Conn Igguldens højdramatiske serie om de engelske Rosekrigene. Sidste bind forventes at udkomme på dansk i 2017. Richard, hertug af York, er død; hans ambitioner ligger i ruiner, hans hoved er sat på en stage på Yorks bymur. Edward af March, den nye hertug af York, udråber sig selv til Englands retmæssige konge. Fløje og fraktioner dannes og flås fra hinanden som snefnug. Gennem blod og forræderi, ødelagte mænd og hævngerrige kvinder, skal broder møde broder, og konge stå over for konge på slagmarken.