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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done-perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done-perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
It is four years since Sharpe earned his seargeant's stripes and he seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British Army in India. But his comfort is shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer. And then he is ordered to join the hunt for the renegade Englishman.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe finds himself fighting the ruthless armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula under their control. Napoleon is advancing fast through northern Portugal, and no one knows whether the small contingent of British troops stationed in Lisbon will stay to fight or sail back to England. Sharpe, however, does not have a choice: He and his squad of riflemen are on the lookout for the missing...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In this installment of the best selling historical fiction series featuring Major Richard Sharpe, a corrupt political enemy is determined to disband the South Essex Regiment and destroy Sharpe's life. Sharpe returns to England to discover an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders know Sharpe is on their trail, and they try to kill him at every turn. But Sharpe is fighting for his command, and as...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Embattled once again, this time in the mountains of western Spain near the pass called the Gateway of God, Richard Sharpe faces a redoubtable array of opponents, including an army of deserters, ten fierce French battalions, and the contemptible Obadiah Hakeswill.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1995.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 20
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent—if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory. But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different sort of battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's personal treasure, Sharpe escapes from a British military...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002, 2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1799, the British Army is fighting its way through India in an attempt to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive his French allies out. Posing as a deserter, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must penetrate into the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there. Success will mean winning his sergeant stripes; failure, being turned over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners--or his...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
18) Heretic
Author
Series
Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
From author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer's Tale and Vagabond-the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family's honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail. Already a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army, young Thomas of Hookton possesses the fearlessness of a born leader and an uncanny prowess with the longbow. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, he has been...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The first installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England-the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.
This is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms.
The story...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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