Richard Sharpe novels
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Author
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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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
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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,...
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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...
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
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Set in 1807, Richard Sharpe is "trying to protect the prized Danish fleet from Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions."--Jacket.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1988
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.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe finds himself fighting the ruthless armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Napoleon is advancing fast through northern Portugal, and no one knows whether the small contingent of British troops stationed in Lisbon will stay to fight or sail back to England. Sharpe, however, does not have a choice: He and his squad of riflemen are on the lookout for the missing...
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Language
English
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Sharpe's gold: Richard Sharpe and the destruction of Almeida, August 1810 , Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
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Author
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the eleventh 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.
In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz, now the Spanish capital and itself under siege.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 13
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1982
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.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
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.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 15
Publisher
Sharpe Appreciation Society
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
16) Sharpe's Enemy
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
Language
English
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A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt.
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 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
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.
21) Waterloo
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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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 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....