Sharpe · Book 8
Sharpe's Siege
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781850573784
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Siege, published in 1987 at 320 pages, follows Sharpe's Regiment and precedes Sharpe's Rifles -- one of the sieges the series is known for, rendered with Cornwell's trademark attention to Napoleonic-era military detail.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Siege is book 8 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Regiment. It is followed by Sharpe's Rifles. 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 9781101153604
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140144420
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780670808663