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‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph
'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail
'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer
‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.’ George R.R. Martin
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'Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph 'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail 'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer 'The best battle scenes of any writer I've ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.' George R.R. Martin
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Each time I pick up a new Sharpe novel I always think it's going to be just like the last one. And to some extent it is. Cornwell's "same old" formula is most definitely a recipe for success. Once again I was gripped by Sharpe's exploits and found it hard to put the book down. I've read all the Sharpe peninsular war novels in chronological order up to this one, and though I cannot now recall where one finishes and the next one starts I almost feel like I've been there with him. Sharpe, Harper and comrades seem like good friends. And that's why, without spoiling the story I found the manner of the parting of Sharpe, Harper and Frederickson quite moving. Sharpe is unusually aware of his own mortality in this tale, not so do or die at all. I suppose we all change as we get older. Ducos, however, does not change, if you've met him and hated him before, you'll hate him just as much now. This is as good as any Sharpe I've read, give it a whirl.
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Having worked my way through Sharpe chronologically and (like most readers) built up a decent knowledge of the period, I was braced for something different in this novel of the peace of 1814 -before that march to Waterloo. Pleasingly, I found it wasn't just 'filler' but a refreshing change of pace that particularly rewarded the long term reader.
Of all the books, this one feels most like a sequel. It begins with the fall out from Sharpe's Siege set weeks before; leading Sharpe to a duel that will test his relationship with Jane, started in Sharpe's Regiment; and embroils Sharpe first in battle then in peacetime treachery, that will have life or death consequences for friends and foe (Nairn, Frederickson, Ducos) who've inhabited Sharpe's world since Sharpe's Enemy.
With so much to resolve, Cornwell makes great use of his standard omniscient narration to tell the story 'over the shoulder' of these characters. Sharpe increasingly terrified before battle, longing for retirement and his wife; Harper trapped in the army; Frederickson losing any purpose he had; all the French characters waiting for the country to descend into chaos and making their plans.
Cornwell, all the peninsular battles behind him, goes to town on the last battle of the war in the first 3rd of the book. There follows a thrilling melodrama (not unlike Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) in style and subject) played out across England, France and Italy with plenty of tough, tense action. I love the TV show but, free from budgetary or timing constraints, this is far superior. The characters truly think this is the end for them: of course, we know there's one last march...
Of all the books, this one feels most like a sequel. It begins with the fall out from Sharpe's Siege set weeks before; leading Sharpe to a duel that will test his relationship with Jane, started in Sharpe's Regiment; and embroils Sharpe first in battle then in peacetime treachery, that will have life or death consequences for friends and foe (Nairn, Frederickson, Ducos) who've inhabited Sharpe's world since Sharpe's Enemy.
With so much to resolve, Cornwell makes great use of his standard omniscient narration to tell the story 'over the shoulder' of these characters. Sharpe increasingly terrified before battle, longing for retirement and his wife; Harper trapped in the army; Frederickson losing any purpose he had; all the French characters waiting for the country to descend into chaos and making their plans.
Cornwell, all the peninsular battles behind him, goes to town on the last battle of the war in the first 3rd of the book. There follows a thrilling melodrama (not unlike Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) in style and subject) played out across England, France and Italy with plenty of tough, tense action. I love the TV show but, free from budgetary or timing constraints, this is far superior. The characters truly think this is the end for them: of course, we know there's one last march...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Is this the end of Richard Sharpe.......... our hero is arrested and there seems no way out. Ducos has him stitched up good and proper! As usual a classic Sharpe novel with blood, guts and glory....... getting near the end of a superb series!
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