Customer Review: Everything I have read by Bernard Cornwell is engrossing and well written and well researched. I especially like to read the historical notes found at the end of the book and maybe someday I will be able to go to one of the battlefields he writes about.
Customer Review: It's 1799 in India, and Sharpe is 22, a private and thinking of deserting. His arch enemy, Hakeswill, is making his life a misery, and he is bored of the army routine of "hurry up and do nothing". Provoked into striking Hakeswill, Sharpe is flogged. After only part of the sentence is carried out,... more info
Customer Review: This was my first Bernard Cornwell novel, and I liked it so much I read it in one sitting, even though the napoleanic wars aren't my area of interest (though this series could change that). Cornwell actually has a subtle but unique style of prose, unlike so many contemporary writers who only hammer... more info
Customer Review: in "Sharpe's Honor," Richard Sharpe is set up by the French spymaster Pierre Ducos. The plot is dastardly - Sharpe is accused of murdering a prominent Spanish general at a time when English-Spanish relations are at the most delicate. What else can Wellington do except throw Sharpe to the wolves of... more info
Customer Review: Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe's Siege" is a delightful entertainment, full of thrills, derring-do, deceit, betrayal, heroism, and loss. Not for nothing does the Rifleman Sharpe series occupy an honored place in many high-brow libraries despite its undeniable middle-brow appeal. Far from Serious... more info
Customer Review: Bernard Cornwell has created a hero for the ages in Richard Sharpe, gutter trash raised from the ranks to become a Major in Wellington's army. For years, Sharpe has fought his away across land and sea, taking on enemies both mundane and exotic, and charming both men and women, friend and foe... more info
Customer Review: Picking up where "Sharpe's Rifles" leaves off, this installments finds Sharpe and his unit in Portugal. They've been under the benign command of Captain Hogan, who surveys the land in anticipation of French invasion. Sharpe happily delays arriving in Lisbon and returning to formal army command,... more info
Customer Review: This book is one of my favorite in the Sharpe series. It brings together a number of characters from previous editions and introduces some new ones that I will enjoy meeting in subsequent books. Again, Cornwell does an excellent job of taking a historical reality and building an exciting story... more info
Customer Review: The Sharpe series is one of my personal favorites, especially the excellent Sharpe's Eagle. However in this one I believe we find perhaps the weakest of the stories. The first complication for this book is that it removes Sharpe from India or Spain and puts him in Denmark. Next Sgt Harper only... more info
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