Sharpe · Book 9
Sharpe's Rifles
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN-13
- 9780786134434
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Rifles (1988, 351 pages) is often recommended as the most natural jumping-on point for new readers, a self-contained introduction to Richard Sharpe that follows Sharpe's Siege and precedes Sharpe's Revenge in the original 1980s sequence.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Rifles is book 9 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Siege. It is followed by Sharpe's Revenge. 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 9780786134434
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007425860
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429531412