Sharpe · Book 15
Sharpe's Tiger
- Published
- 2 June 1997
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780583334259
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Tiger (1997, 384 pages) opens the India trilogy Cornwell added from 1997 onward -- Tiger, Triumph, and Fortress -- written once his style had matured, taking Sharpe back to his earliest days as a young private serving in India, before he became an officer.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Tiger is book 15 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Battle. It is followed by Sharpe's Triumph. 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
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780583334259
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