Sharpe · Book 10

Sharpe's Revenge

by Bernard Cornwell

Published
1 January 1989
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9780007452897
Type
novel

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About this book

Sharpe's Revenge, published in 1989 at 352 pages, carries the series from Sharpe's Rifles toward Sharpe's Waterloo, continuing Cornwell's 1980s run of Peninsular War novels toward the campaign's climactic battles.

Its place in Sharpe

Sharpe's Revenge is book 10 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Rifles. It is followed by Sharpe's Waterloo. 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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