Sharpe · Book 3
Sharpe's Company
- Published
- 10 May 1982
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN-13
- 9780007276233
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Company (1982, 280 pages) carries Richard Sharpe's Napoleonic campaign from Sharpe's Gold toward Sharpe's Sword, part of the run of Peninsular War novels Cornwell wrote first, in the 1980s, before later returning to fill in Sharpe's earlier career.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Company is book 3 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Gold. It is followed by Sharpe's Sword. 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 9780736659147
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433294211
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451213426