Sharpe · Book 17
Sharpe's Fortress
- Published
- 19 November 1998
- Pages
- 366
- ISBN-13
- 9780007346806
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Fortress closes the India trilogy in late 1998 at 366 pages, following Sharpe's Triumph and preceding the short story Sharpe's Skirmish -- the last of the three India prequels Cornwell added to the series from 1997 onward.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Fortress is book 17 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Triumph. It is followed by Sharpe's Skirmish. 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 9780754022954
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780001055629
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061136290