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• Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 by Bernard Cornwell

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• Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 [Sharpe 1] by Bernard Cornwell

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Praise for Bernard Cornwell and the Sharpe series 'Cornwell describes military action brilliantly. He evokes all the sights and sounds and smells while managing to describe the fluctuations of the battle with enough vim to keep you in suspense!The Sharpe novels are wonderfully urgent and alive.' Daily Telegraph 'Cornwell has maintained a marvellously high standard throughout the series!brilliantly lucid and compellingly exciting.' Evening Standard 'Bernard Cornwell knows his man, knows how to harness his qualities to the services of good fiction, and does not miss a trick!Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph 'The insubordinate, sarcastic and oversexed Richard Sharpe returns!Cornwell delivers the usual mix of strategy and strength - classic battle scenes and plenty of fisticuffs.' Daily Mirror

The year is 1804 and Sharpe is on the trail of a renegade East India Company officer. (Kirkus UK)

The marvelous Cornwell returns to his greatest character, British Army rifleman Richard Sharpe, after completing his Arthurian Warlord trilogy and the Starbuck Chronicles series, about the US Civil War. In the most recent Sharpe adventure (Sharpe's Battle, 1995), set in May 1811, Captain Sharpe fought in the savage, three-day engagement against Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro. It's now eight years earlier, and Sharpe is a sergeant in India fighting beside Wellington at the Battle of Assaye, an engagement that Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, rated above his triumph over Napoleon at Waterloo. The British Army is preparing to attack India's Mahratta Confederation when the ragingly ambitious Lt. Dodd defects to the Confederation. But is it a real defection? Great banks of gunsmoke rise as the armies battle - until, at a village called Assaye, the enemy baits its trap for Wellington and draws him into the range of an array of infantry and of 80 heavy guns on a high bluff, and besides that into a village crammed with the Rajah of Berar's troops. By story's end, Sharpe is Ensign Sharpe, a commissioned officer. Cornwell's fans will dance with delight as horsemen charge and sabers swing through chaos and terror. (Kirkus Reviews)

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The latest of Cornwell's perennially popular Sharpe adventures, returning, like Sharpe's Tiger, to India, and culminating with the battle at Assaye which Wellington considered his greatest victory. Repackaged in the fantastic new Sharpe look. As millions of readers came to know Bernard Cornwell's brilliant creation Richard Sharpe as he fought his way through the Peninsular War, so they discovered that Sharpe had started his soldiering career in India. In 1997, Sharpe's Tiger finally lifted the veil on this exciting early life and became the biggest-selling Sharpe novel of all. Now, the year is 1803 and young Sergeant Richard Sharpe is still in India where, following his successes in Sharpe's Tiger, he is on the trail of a renegade East India Company officer. The pursuit takes him through the vicious siege of Ahmednuggur to the bloody battlefield of Assaye where the future Duke of Wellington won what he considered to be his greatest victory, with Richard Sharpe, naturally, at his side. Full of the action and drama and atmosphere that have made this series so immensely popular with both readers and television viewers, Sharpe's Triumph will be one of the most eagerly awaited novels of the year.

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22 Reviews 5 star:  (8) 4 star:  (10) 3 star:  (2) 2 star:  (1) 1 star:  (1)           Average Customer Review 4.0 out of 5 stars (22 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Wellington and Sharpe - the beginning., 19 Dec 1999 By A Customer Having marched and fought with Richard Sharpe from the Peninsula to Waterloo and beyond, it was with great interest that I journeyed back in time with him, and indeed Wellesley, to India. "Tiger," in all honesty, I found difficult to get into, although by the end I was once more with Sharpe in the thick of the action. "Triumph," on the other hand, had me hooked from the very start, and I would say to the new Sharpe reader - start with "Tiger" and persevere. "Triumph" fills in a lot of gaps in the Sharpe story as a whole, and after that, "Fortress" awaits you - and how! By the time you have fought at Assaye, won through at Ahmednuggur, and conquered Gawilghur, you deserve a rest, and a leisurely sea-voyage back home to England. But by then the year is 1805, and you will have to sail close to the South-West tip of Spain, the cape of Trafalgar. Who knows what will happen? Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Sharpe at Assaye, 6 Aug 2007 By  Didier (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    This book culminates with the battle of Assaye (September 23rd, 1803) which Wellington himself allegedly considered his finest victory. Before it gets to that however you're treated to the oh so familiar but never stale or boring ingredients of a typical Sharpe novel: colourful characters (one female too, off course), a fast-paced plot, vivid descriptions, and plenty of action. Mindless escapism this surely is, but in that category few can rival Cornwell. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, 22 Oct 2008 By  chuckles "barnie884" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    I am so glad that Bernard Cornwell went back to do these. I was lucky enough to read all in date order (I got into these in the past 6 months). Reading the later books makes so much sense as they constantly refer back to previous exploits. It's really interesting to see him rising up the ranks, seems to make everything make sense. Typical rip-roaring Sharpe novel.... cant put them down! Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 22 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 3.0 out of 5 stars You'll be swept along by this. This was my first experience of the Sharpe novels and although military fiction isn't usually my thing I have to confess to really enjoying it. Read more Published 6 days ago by Script Angel 4.0 out of 5 stars Wellesleys's Triumph Apparently, when asked towards the end of his life which battle he was most proud of, Wellington, without hesitation, named Assaye in 1803. Read more Published 2 months ago by Mandrake 5.0 out of 5 stars Glory in the Midst of Bloody Battles and Duplicity If you haven't yet read Sharpe's Tiger, I recommend that you begin your reading of this exciting series with that book. Read more Published 8 months ago by Professor Donald Mitchell 4.0 out of 5 stars Truimph - certainly is The second of the Indian Trilogy and it continues in the same breathtaking read, every chapter glides along as we see Sharpe at Assaye and famously saving Wellesley during the... Read more Published 13 months ago by D. Cook 1.0 out of 5 stars Cornwell continues his betrayal I read all of the original Sharpe series in the eighties and thought that the series had come to it's natural conclusion with Sharpes Waterloo in 1990. Read more Published 23 months ago by Starbuck Fan 5.0 out of 5 stars Sharpe is back bigger and better (but some how back in the past) I must say I started reading the Sharpe books about last summer (2006) and I've read all 23 and to be honest the first three that I read were the prequels and despite the fact... Read more Published 24 months ago by Matty W 5.0 out of 5 stars A must for Sharpe fans Like otehr readers, I was a little wary of delving back into the 'Sharpe' prequels; I woudl say that they are every bit as good as the original series. Read more Published on 21 May 2007 by Paul J. Tayler 4.0 out of 5 stars Brutal battle sequences This is the first Sharpe book I have read and I rate it very good. It starts with the massacre at Chasalgaon, recently dramatised on TV in Sharpe's Challenge, goes on to the... Read more Published on 21 May 2006 by D. Clark 5.0 out of 5 stars could it every get any better than this?? what more do you want, richard sharpe fighting the evil major dodd, while dreaming of getting high than his station, and sweeping a french captin's wife off her feet! Read more Published on 29 Oct 2003 by bexable1233 2.0 out of 5 stars Not his best Sadly not up to the standard of the earlier Sharpe books. Like the other three books in the "prequel" (Tiger, Fortress, Trafalgar) the book is slow and predictable with cardboard... Read more Published on 29 May 2002 Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 22 customer reviews...

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