Sharpe · Book 12

Sharpe's Devil

by Bernard Cornwell

Published
1 January 1992
Pages
322
ISBN-13
9780061090288
Type
novel

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About this book

Sharpe's Devil, correctly dated to 1992, follows Sharpe's Waterloo and precedes the short story Sharpe's Christmas at 322 pages, extending Richard Sharpe's story past the Napoleonic Wars' official end at Waterloo.

Its place in Sharpe

Sharpe's Devil is book 12 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Waterloo. It is followed by Sharpe's Christmas. 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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