Richard Sharpe novels
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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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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.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
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The continuing adventures of Richard Sharpe, a 19th century soldier, as he fights to enlarge the British empire. He helps the Duke of Wellington put down the Indian Mahratta rebellion, an operation culminating in the 1803 Battle of Assaye which is described in vivid detail.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
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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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Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2001
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Richard Sharpe, traveling home aboard the ‘Revenant’, meets Admiral Nelson and his fleet, on what was a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar. Soldier, hero, rogue – Sharpe is 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 95th regiment whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
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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.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
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In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
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Bernard Cornwell returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula where the lieutenant and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Pub. Date
1981
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At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon into what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment by capturing the most valued prize...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
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With Wellington outnumbered, 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.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
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The newest Sharpe adventure takes place in the fall of 1810 at the battle of Bussaco, Spain, the sack of Coimbra, Portugal, and at the Lines of Torres Vedras.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2006
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Richard Sharpe, the former private in His Majesty's army who now commands a company of riflemen, finds himself fighting his old enemies, the French, in 1811.
12) Sharpe's battle
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth 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.
Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses.
The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military...
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Sharpe's skirmish: Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812 , Richard Sharpe novels volume 15
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
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While Napoleon closes in on the British, Major Richard Sharpe gets caught in a different kind of battle--one with his enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, who has taken a group of French and British women hostage at the Gateway of God, a pass in the mountains of western Spain.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
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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.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
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With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 19
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In 1814 Richard Sharpe and his small force of Rifleman face overwhelming odds after being abandoned deep in French territory.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
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British solider Richard Sharpe faces duel battles in the Peninsula Wars--one to conquer the city of Toulouse, and the other to defend his honor against the charge that he stole Napoleon's personal treasure.
21) Waterloo
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
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Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
22) Sharpe's Devil
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, another exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Five years after the Battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered. An old friend, Don Blas Vivar, is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands — a report his wife refuses to believe. She appeals...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"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....