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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe is caught between the British army and a renegade Englishman holed up in a fortress with his own private soldiers, in a novel about the British troops and their struggle to take the Indian fortress of Mahattra in 1803.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
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
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Language
English
Description
When he goes undercover in India to overthrow the Tippoo of Mysore, Richard Sharpe is forced to take up arms against his true comrades to protect his false identity.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Sharpe and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Captain Richard Sharpe is given responsibility for a poorly trained and ill-equipped Irish battalion of the King of Spain. Britain's hopes of victory in Spain depend on Sharpe's ability to combat an elite French guard headed by the vengeful Brigadier General Guy Loup.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Richard Sharpe, fresh from his heroic adventures in India, faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a fearsome French warship. With the help of a captain in the Royal Navy, Sharpe learns the French ship carries a treaty that could ignite renewed hostilities against the British in India. Now a fateful rendezvous is waiting in the waters off Cadiz.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is charged with leading the demoralized men of the 95th Rifles to safety through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain and discovers that turning to Spanish soldier Blas Vivar for help may be a fatal mistake.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Combines the meticulous historical detail and fantastic battle scenes he's famous for with a plot that races at breakneck speed toward the final, bloody battle that threatens to destroy Copenhagen.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
It is 1810, and in Napoleon's determination to conquer Portugal - and push the British back to the sea - he sends his largest army yet across the Spanish frontier.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
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
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1981
Language
English
Author
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.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1992
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 14
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
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.