Sharpe · Book 25
Sharpe's Command
- Published
- 10 October 2023
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780008496777
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Command (2023, 320 pages) is the second of the three late-career additions Cornwell wrote from 2021 onward, following Sharpe's Assassin and preceding Sharpe's Storm as the series finally fills in the end of Richard Sharpe's soldiering years.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Command is book 25 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Assassin. It is followed by Sharpe's Storm. 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…
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