About this book
Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of action"Sharpe asked three things of his men. That they fought as he did with a ruthless professionalism.That they stole only from the enemy and the dead unless they were starving. And they never got drunk without his permission."Richard Sharpe is having a difficult war. Excluded from promotion because he is always on the battlefield, up against pompous, incompetent colonels, and worst, suddenly finding himself at the head of an inexperienced company who use all twenty five drill book approved movements to load and fire their muskets.A soldier like Sharpe can't be kept down though and his promotion to Captain, when it comes, makes a dangerous enemy in the upper ranks. As Sharpe approaches bloody battle in Talavera, he knows he is fighting for his own honour and that of his men.
Richard Sharpe · 24 books
In publication order- Sharpe's Eagle 1981 This book
- Sharpe's Gold 1981
- Sharpe's Company 1982
- Sharpe's Sword 1983
Subjects
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, war & military
- great britain, fiction
- great britain in fiction
- guerre d'espagne, 1807-1814
- historical fiction
- military history
- napoleonic wars, 1800-1815
- napoleonic wars (1800-1815) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01032683
- napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
- napoleonic wars, 1800-1815 in fiction
- peninsular war, 1807-1814
- richard sharpe (fictitious character)
- romans, nouvelles
- sharpe, richard (fictitious character), fiction
- soldiers
- talavera, battle of, talavera de la reina, spain, 1809