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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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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am a big fan of the sharpe books and the TV dramas. When I started reading Sharpes Waterloo the book instantly sprung alive and you could almost smell the musket smoke. Bernard Cornwell is a superb writer who manages to make the story bounce alive out of the book with his fantastic descriptiveness, especially of Sharpe, portraying him as a 'tramp'.
The battles scenes are excellent, whether it be a small skirmish between the Prussians and the French or the main battle of Waterloo, they remain historically accurate. If you are interested in war, history or just good literature I would highly recommend this book.
The battles scenes are excellent, whether it be a small skirmish between the Prussians and the French or the main battle of Waterloo, they remain historically accurate. If you are interested in war, history or just good literature I would highly recommend this book.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sharpe's Waterloo is quite a different book to the other Sharpe's I have read. Sharpe seems to have been written around the events at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, rather than being central to them. If Sharpe was an afterthought, then Harper was lucky to make it into the pages at all. Whilst he is there, he doesn't add anything to the plot, but perhaps Cornwell just didn't want to leave him out. If anything the battles are the central characters.
I still really enjoyed reading this, the writing style still made it hard to put down, the battle descriptions are detailed, gruesome and gripping as any, maybe more so.
Sharpe's feud with Lord John Rossendale and his dispute with the foolish Prince of Orange thread through the story in true Cornwell style.
It's the end of the Napoleonic wars for Sharpe, Harper and a few others, perhaps a fitting one, though I'm not too sure. Still, I am sure that I'll be reading Sharpe's Devil pretty soon, followed by Sharpe's Tiger et al.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Like all good things the `Sharpe' series had to come to an end and what better way with the most famous battle of the Napoleonic Wars - Waterloo. Most Bernard Cornwell fans will be well aware that 1990's `Sharpe's Waterloo' was by no means the character's last book, but the author wrote it like it may have been. The Sharpe series have always had a basic structure; battle at the start, Sharpe falls for a woman, Sharpe meets colourful enemy with nickname such as `The Butcher', battle at the end in which Sharpe beds woman and kills enemy. `Waterloo' throws this out of the window and instead is almost one continuous battle from start to finish.
With this in mind the book will appeal to some fans of the series and not others. As a rule I love the way that Cornwell describes fighting and `Waterloo' is a smorgasbord of detail and horror. For me it is the quintessential novel by the author and highlights how brilliant he is at creating atmosphere and making history evocative. However, other people will decry the lack of character development and the way that some storylines are seemingly left to hang in the air. It is true that there is no real structure to the book apart from the battle itself, but when that battle is written so well this is all you need. I would urge people to read some of the earlier book in the series first so that you get to know and love Sharpe and Harper, but for those who do know them - this is their greatest test ever.
With this in mind the book will appeal to some fans of the series and not others. As a rule I love the way that Cornwell describes fighting and `Waterloo' is a smorgasbord of detail and horror. For me it is the quintessential novel by the author and highlights how brilliant he is at creating atmosphere and making history evocative. However, other people will decry the lack of character development and the way that some storylines are seemingly left to hang in the air. It is true that there is no real structure to the book apart from the battle itself, but when that battle is written so well this is all you need. I would urge people to read some of the earlier book in the series first so that you get to know and love Sharpe and Harper, but for those who do know them - this is their greatest test ever.
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Ripping yarn
Is this The penultimate tale in the Richard Sharpe story? This book is Up to CornWell's usauls high standards. Blood, guts and friendship.
Published 2 days ago by keithwillb
absorbing read
Pick it up and you will not want to put it down. Cornwell is a brilliant author. I am always aon the lokaout for his books.
Published 2 months ago by Mr. M. T. Coughlin
Cornwell's weakest
It's a long time ago that I threw away a book in disgust. This book is so full of anti-Dutch bias and historical inaccuracy that this is exactly what I did with Sharpe's Waterloo. Read more
Published 9 months ago by J. Van Limpt
Contains All the Best Elements of the Series
"And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." -- Revelation 16:16
Waterloo was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars, a last... Read more
Waterloo was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars, a last... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2009 by Donald Mitchell
Great finale
My only disappointment is that the series of Novels ends at this point, they were outstanding
Published on 2 July 2009 by W. Faulkner
Historically biased
I had read through the whole series of the Sharpe book before I got to this one, and, to tell the truth, I had to do away with my aversion of Sharpe's (Cornwell's) French-hating... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2008 by Daniels Pascal
Time for Sharpe to settle down?
This book is a suberb last (well almost) chapter in the truely excellent series. This for once is not that much about Sharpe, but more about the battle itself. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2008 by chuckles
Brilliant!!!!!!
I have never read a book which has made me jump forward a half a page at a time because I can't stand the suspense. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2008 by Chris1963
Prime stuff, Sharpe's finest hour!
I've read quite a few books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the Napoleonic wars in general and Waterloo specifically but in the fiction-category this is probably the best. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2007 by Didier
My favourite Sharpe novel
I love all 21 of the Sharpe novels and have read them all (plus Cornwells other works) often, but this one has to be my favourite one. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2007 by SJ SMART
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