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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
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 11
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2006.
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
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe's peaceful existence is brutally shattered by a bitter English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation, and as Sharpe hunts down the turncoat, he is hurled into the battle of Assay alongside the Duke of Wellington
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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 volume 22
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
British regimental quartermaster--and swashbuckling hero--Richard Sharpe finds himself at odds with Captain John Lavisser, a traitor for the French, during an 1807 campaign by the British to destroy the Danish Navy before the French can add it to their fleet.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013,2006
Language
English
Description
In the year 1810 Napoleon is determined to conquer Portugal. But Captain Richard Sharpe leads the French directly into the Duke of Wellington's devastating defenses at Torres Vedras, where one of the great battles of the Napoleonic wars erupts.
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