Sharpe · Book 4
Sharpe's Sword
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 319
- ISBN-13
- 9780140294330
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Sword, published in 1983 at 319 pages, sits between Sharpe's Company and Sharpe's Enemy in the original 1980s run of Peninsular War novels, following Sharpe and Sergeant Harper through another of Cornwell's meticulously researched sieges.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Sword is book 4 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Company. It is followed by Sharpe's Enemy. 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 9780451213433
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780745167855
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780140070248