Sharpe · Book 21

Sharpe's Havoc

by Bernard Cornwell

Published
1 January 2003
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780060566708
Type
novel

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About this book

Sharpe's Havoc (2003, 384 pages) follows Sharpe's Prey and precedes Sharpe's Escape, part of the string of early-2000s novels Cornwell wrote to flesh out Richard Sharpe's Peninsular War career alongside his earlier bestsellers.

Its place in Sharpe

Sharpe's Havoc is book 21 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Prey. It is followed by Sharpe's Escape. 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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