His father was Canadian airman William Oughtred and his mother was Englishwoman Dorothy Cornwell, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Biography Ĭornwell was born in London in 1944. He lives in the US with his wife, alternating between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina. Two of the historical novel series have been adapted for television: the Sharpe television series by ITV and The Last Kingdom by BBC.

He wrote a nonfiction book on the battle of Waterloo, in addition to the fictional story of the famous battle in the Sharpe series. A feature of his historical novels is an end note on how they match or differ from history, and what one might see at the modern sites of the events described. He has written historical novels primarily based on English history, in five series, and one series of contemporary thriller novels. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of 13 novels about the making of England. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. And caught between them Private Sam Gilpin, seduced into war by a dare and a red coat, must learn the bitter lessons of love, loss and the real meaning of loyalty.Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon, unscrupulous Ezra Woollard and the brutal Sergeant Scammell, forge and break shifting allegiances that drive them to dangerous lengths. For an occupied city throws together loyalist and patriot, soldier and civilian, man and woman divides families and breeds treachery. Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war - not just between American troops and the British army, but within itself. įrom THE BESTSELLING author Bernard Cornwell comes Redcoat. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon, unscrupulous Ezra Woollard and the brutal Sergeant Scammell, forge and break shifting. From THE BESTSELLING author Bernard Cornwell comes Redcoat.

Redcoat by bernard cornwell