Sharpe · Book 11
Sharpe's Waterloo
- Published
- 1 February 1990
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780140294392
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sharpe's Waterloo (1990, 384 pages) brings Richard Sharpe to the battle that ends the Napoleonic Wars, following Sharpe's Revenge and preceding Sharpe's Devil in Cornwell's original sequence -- the culmination of two decades of campaigning.
Its place in Sharpe
Sharpe's Waterloo is book 11 in the Sharpe series. It follows Sharpe's Revenge. It is followed by Sharpe's Devil. 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 9780816175604
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006178767
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007338764