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1) Redcoat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Amidst the turbulent world of British-occupied Philadelphia in 1777, young British soldier Sam Gilpin questions his loyalty to the king when his brother dies, while the wealthy Becket family is divided by conflict, and all of their destinies are forever changed at a place called Valley Forge.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
Pub. Date
1982, ©1981
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe's secret mission pits him against the French under Napoleon and also against the guerilla leader El Catolico.
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nate Starbuck, Boston renegade and Confederate officer, is sent to Richmond to take command of a battalion of criminals, murderers, deserters, and other misfits of society to prepare them for the next major battle of the Civil War.
10) Rebel
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North, and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Buff Run, the men are prepared to start a war ... but they aren't ready for...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
In 1812, after just being promoted to Major, Richard Sharpe and his company is deployed to the Spanish-Portuguese boarder in an attempt to disband a multinational band of deserters, led by his longtime nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill. Planning to outsmart the renegades by taking their position on Christmas Eve, Sharpe is about to be confronted with the fact that he is surrounded by several French battalions.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Language
English
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 his...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
At Talavera, Captain Richard Sharpe is prepared to lead his men against the armies of France. Sharpe is determined to capture the French mascot, a gold eagle, after his friend is killed.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
Sharpe's voyage home from India is interrupted by the French warship Revenant. Soon, Sharpe finds himself caught up in the one of the greatest naval battles in British history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Prequel to Sharpe's Regiment: the invasion of France, June to November 1813.
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.
18) 1356: a novel
Author
Series
Grail Quest volume 4
Language
English
Description
September, 1356. Across France, towns are closing their gates. The crops are burning and the countryside stands alert to danger. The English army - led by the heir to the throne, The Black Prince - is set to invade. The French, along with their Scottish allies, are ready to hunt them down. But what if there was a weapon that could decide the outcome of the imminent war?
Thomas of Hookton, known as le Batard, has orders to discover the lost sword...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2004, c1981
Language
English
Description
With Wellington out numbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding, collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing it, and it means turning against his own men.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe, newly promoted for his skill in assisting Sir Arthur Wellesley in the battle against the Mahratta, risks his honor, reputation, and fortune in his quest to thwart a treasonous scheme devised by his oldest nemesis Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill.
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