Sharpe · Book 5
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.
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