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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0066213282
  • ISBN-13: 978-0066213286
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
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As well as the the text of the 17th Sharpe novel that sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly-formed Green Jackets, this ebook features "Sharpe's Skirmish: Richard Sharpe and Defence of Tormes, August 1812", an ebook exclusive short story by Bernard Cornwell.

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4.0 out of 5 stars On the way home from India Sharpe gets caught up in Trafalgar, 7 Jun 2007
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Paperback)
Only Richard Sharpe could get caught up in a fleet battle on the way home from India and find romance on a Royal Navy line-of-battle ship. But he does, and it's a highly entertaining read.

Sharpe's Trafalgar is set at the conclusion of the trilogy of novels in India in which he obtains some treasure, gets promoted to be an officer after saving the life of General Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington, and deals with the traitor Dodd. Shipping home to join the 95th Rifles, Sharpe initially takes passage on an East Indiaman, and finds an old opponent as one of the passengers. Treachery follows and the ship is captured by the French. (Not by pirates, and there is no shipwreck.)

However, as the story is about Sharpe's Trafalgar, we know that he will not remain a prisoner of war for long. And sure enough, after an involved series of events, including the obligatory rescue of a lady in distress, Sharpe and his fellow passengers find themselves guests on a Royal Navy '74 gun ship of the line, chasing a French battleship half-way round the world. Until both ships arrive off Cape Trafalgar on 21st October 1805 ...

As usual Bernard Cornwell has done a great deal of research so that the Napoleonic era battles he describe seem real, and in the historical note at the end he explains that many of the events described during the battle of Trafalgar were based on things which really happened.

The next novel after this in the chronological sequence is "Sharpe's Prey," the main action of which is set two years later in 1807 when Napoleon's continental blockade results in was between Britain and Denmark. That book also tells you what happens to SHarpe's relationship with Grace, the heroine of "Sharpe's Trafalgar".

If you liked the other Sharpe books, you will like this one.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 22 Oct 2008
By chuckles "barnie884" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Paperback)
As always, a rip-roaring Sharpe classic. Have to say, the excuses for Sharpe to be in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time are a little bit stretched in this one, however doesn't stop it being a Cornwell page turner!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sharpe at sea & in love, 16 Aug 2007
By Didier (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharpe's Trafalgar: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Paperback)
An unusual Sharpe-novel in that it largely takes place at sea (aboard the frigate Pucelle which is taking Sharpe from India back to England), and has fairly little action except for the battle at Trafalgar which ends the book.

Nonetheless, I read this with great pleasure (if only for the love story, it's strange to encounter a love-struck Sharpe) and even without pitched battles every other chapter Cornwell knows how to keep you engaged in the story and always wanting to find out what'll happen next. On to Sharpe's Rifles!
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