Sharpe · Book 1
Sharpe's Eagle
- Published
- 9 February 1981
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN-13
- 9780007805099
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Eagle, published 9 February 1981, was the first Sharpe novel Bernard Cornwell wrote and remains many readers' entry point into the series -- 296 pages that drop Richard Sharpe, already an officer, into the Peninsular War at the Battle of Talavera. Sharpe's Gold followed the same year.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Eagle is book 1 in the Sharpe series. It is followed by Sharpe's Gold. 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 9780140294309
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786106622
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780441760916