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Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 (Paperback)

by Bernard Cornwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (6 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006510310
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006510314
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.1 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,432 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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


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Sharpe, having just received his commission, faces his toughest battle yet in this return to India, the terrain of the bestselling Sharpe's Tiger. Repackaged in the fantastic new Sharpe look. It is 1803 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India. Marching with the British is Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly made into an officer and wishing he had stayed a sergeant. Spurned by his new regiment, he is sent to the army's baggage train and there finds corruption, romance, treason and enemies old and new. Sergeant Hakeswill wants Sharpe dead, and Hakeswill has powerful friends while Sharpe has only an orphaned Arab boy as his ally. And waiting with the cornered Mahrattas is another enemy, the renegade Englishman, William Dodd, who does not envisage defeat, but only a glorious triumph. For the Mahrattas have taken refuge in Gawilghur, the greatest stronghold of India, perched high on its cliffs above the Deccan Plain. Who rules in Gawilghur, it is said, rules India, and Dodd knows that the fortress is impregnable. There, behind its double walls, in the towering twin forts, Sharpe must face his enemies in what will prove to be Wellesley's last battle on Indian soil.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Answers some of the questions, 27 Aug 2000
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Once again Bernard Cornwell provides his followers with more of his famous character--Richard Sharpe. Continuing his series of "prequals" to Sharpe's Rifles, Cornwell has Sharpe suffer a bit more in India against foes both new and old to the reader. Cornwell notes that he has taken major liberties as an author by inserting his fictional character into the final battle, but it still a wonderful story. What I enjoyed was finding out the details behind the Sharpe story...such as how he got his telescope and his scar. We also have our first introduction to the Rifles that we will come to know and love so much. I can't wait to see how Sharpe loses his fortune, since we know he is penniless in Sharpe's Rifles. All in all...a good story in a wonderful series!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars first rate entertainment, 11 Aug 2007
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This, chronologically the third book in the Sharpe-series, reads as easily as all others and is perhaps for sheer amount of action one of the best. Sharpie in rare form!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Slow starter, but excellent, 24 April 2003
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Following on from Sharpe's Triumph, this novel follows the build-up to the assualt on Galwigur, the fortress in the sky. Seemingly impregnable, the fortress is the last stronghold of the Mahrattas and Sir Arthur Wellesly, keen to earn a reputation, knows that India can be one only by taking it.

Newly promoted Sharpe finds he is not welcome as an officer, and when he is assigned to bullock driving he discovers that his new superior, with the help of old enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, is selling army supplies for his own profit. His efforts to rectify the situation do not go down well, and a failed plot to have him murdered lead to a bloody trail of revenge. His adventures lead him back to his old regiment, the King's 33rd, and with these men he leads an escalade on the fortress that facilitates it's capture. With no way out, Major Dodd (who escaped Sharpe at the Battle of Assaye) is forced to fight the heroic ensign. Unsurprisingly, Sharpe fairs best and has time to exact further revenge on Hakeswill.

An exciting novel that is a little slow off the ground but conjures a world so vivid that you could be in the leading rank assaulting Galwigur. Gripping stuff.

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5.0 out of 5 stars sharpe at his best
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5.0 out of 5 stars Graphic look at the India campaign, a must for all Sharpies!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
An excellent addition to the Sharpe series. I thought that without Patrick Harper the books would flounder but they have gone from strength to strength. Read more
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