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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
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
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 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 volume 22
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
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 23
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
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.
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
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From the internationally bestselling author of the Sharpe novels and in the bicentenary year of the battle - this is the true story of Waterloo. On the 18th June, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre Bras and the Prussians at Ligny. The Allies were in retreat. The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark...
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