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Author
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive—a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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"Apart from the rousing battle scenes, the author is as his best in evoking a long-gone era through clever detail."—The New York Times Book Review
A corrupt political enemy is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment — and to destroy Major Richard Sharpe.
Sharpe returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders know Sharpe is on their trail,...
A corrupt political enemy is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment — and to destroy Major Richard Sharpe.
Sharpe returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders know Sharpe is on their trail,...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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When his honor and reputation are at stake, Sharpe seeks revenge—at any cost
It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent—if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory.
But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different...
It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent—if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory.
But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 13
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
280 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be in the leading edge of battle.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
319 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is involved in the war against Napoleon as the protector for the spymaster, El Mirador. He fights through a maze of secrecy and deception to save his career, his life and his sword.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1985
Physical Desc
320 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe volume 16
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986, ©1985
Physical Desc
320 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive-a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
319 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1814, the Napoleonic Wars rage on as Britain invades France. Gearing up for a long and bitter winter campaign, Major Richard Sharpe and his company are unwittingly used as diversionary pawns. Faced with taking a French fortress while simultaneously dealing with American mercenaries, Sharpe butts heads with the bungling Captain Horace Bampfylde.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the bitter winter of 1809, the French are winning the war in Spain. Britain's forces are retreating, being hotly pursued by Napoleon's troops. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his detachment of riflemen, have been cut off, and are being pursued by an Irishman called Patrick Harper. Sharpe finds an ally in a Spanish cavalry officer, Blas Vivar, and companionship in an English refugee, Louisa Parker.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Sharpe's rifles
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe volume 6
Language
English
Description
In the bitter winter of 1809, the French are winning the war in Spain. Britain's forces are retreating, being hotly pursued by Napoleon's troops. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and his detachment of riflemen, have been cut off, and are being pursued by an Irishman called Patrick Harper. Sharpe finds an ally in a Spanish cavalry officer, Blas Vivar, and companionship in an English refugee, Louisa Parker.
13) Waterloo
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
378 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
Publisher
Chivers
Pub. Date
1991, ©1990
Physical Desc
486 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
In June 1815, as Europe heads towards one of the most decisive battles in history, Lieutrnant-Colonel Richard Sharpe finds himself on the personal staff of the Young Frog, Frederick, Prince of Orange, who has been given command of a large proportion of Allied Forces. Frederick refuses to listen to Sharpe's scouting reports of an enormous French army marching towards Brussels with the lately returned Emperor Napoleon at its head--until it is nearly...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
280 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to find his friend Don Blas Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Language
English
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Description
The adventures during the Napoleonic Wars of Captain Richard Sharpe, a British officer who rose from the ranks. While in Spain he orders the execution of two French soldiers for rape, earning thereby the enmity of a nasty French general. By the author of Sharpe's Devil.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Richard Sharpe. Soldier, hero, rogue-the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles,...
18) Sharpe's tiger
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1799, the British Army is fighting its way through India in an attempt to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive his French allies out. Posing as a deserter, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must penetrate into the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there. Success will mean winning his sergeant stripes; failure, being turned over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners—or
...Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done-perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
351 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Embattled once again, this time in the mountains of western Spain near the pass called the Gateway of God, Richard Sharpe faces a redoubtable array of opponents, including an army of deserters, ten fierce French battalions, and the contemptible Obadiah Hakeswill.
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