Sharpe · Book 14
Sharpe's Battle
- Published
- 8 May 1995
- Pages
- 379
- ISBN-13
- 9780061095375
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Battle (1995, 379 pages) picks the series back up after the short story Sharpe's Christmas and leads into Sharpe's Tiger, part of Cornwell's ongoing Peninsular War timeline for Richard Sharpe and Sergeant Harper.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Battle is book 14 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Christmas. It is followed by Sharpe's Tiger. See the full Sharpe reading order.
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels follow Richard Sharpe, a foundling raised in a London workhouse who enlists as a private soldier and — against every rule of the Georgian army — is commissioned into the officer ranks after saving the Duke of Wellington's life in India. From the storming of Seringapatam to the retreat to Corunna, the breaches of Badajoz and Ciudad Rodrigo, the charge at Salamanca, and finally the field of Waterloo itself, Sharpe fights his way across two decades of the Napoleonic Wars with a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786177486
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786179725
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007833788