Sharpe's Enemy
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780007888962
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Enemy (1984, 352 pages) continues the Peninsular War timeline from Sharpe's Sword to Sharpe's Honour, part of the original sequence Cornwell wrote through the 1980s tracking Richard Sharpe's rise despite the class system stacked against him.
Key facts about Sharpe's Enemy
Sharpe's Enemy is a novel by Bernard Cornwell. Readers have had it since 1 January 1984. It runs to 352 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Sharpe's Enemy. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007888962 to find the main one.
Sharpe's Enemy is book 5 of 26 in the Sharpe series. The series has 26 published books. However, the series starts with Sharpe's Eagle (1981). Sharpe's Storm is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 21 October 2025.
Additionally, Bernard Cornwell writes The Crowning Mercy Trilogy, The Sailing Thrillers and The Starbuck Chronicles, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our historical fiction, thriller and historical fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Sharpe's Storm is the latest published Bernard Cornwell book on file, from 21 October 2025.
About Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell is a British author of historical adventure fiction, best known for immersing readers in the physical detail and moral complexity of pre-modern warfare. His breakout Sharpe series follows Richard Sharpe, a low-born British soldier rising through the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars, and became a household name in Britain thanks to the long-running ITV adaptation starring Sean Bean. See every Bernard Cornwell book in order.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Enemy is book 5 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Sword. It is followed by Sharpe's Honour. 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 9780140076554
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140294347
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007888962