Sharpe · Book 16
Sharpe's Triumph
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 382
- ISBN-13
- 9780754022534
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Triumph (1998, 382 pages) is the second book of the India trilogy, following Sharpe's Tiger and preceding Sharpe's Fortress -- part of the prequel run Cornwell wrote from 1997 onward to fill in Sharpe's early career, a decade after the Peninsular War novels he'd written first.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Triumph is book 16 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Tiger. It is followed by Sharpe's Fortress. 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 9780754002680
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