Book description
Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures
Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
It is a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it is the worst he can remember.
He has lost command to a man who could buy the promotion Sharpe covets.
His oldest enemy, the ruthless and indestructible Hakeswill, joins the
regiment and he is a man with a mission to ruin Sharpe.
Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812
Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man -
the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El
Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory.
Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812
Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe is given the task of rescuing a
group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble
of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe's
bitter enemy. '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 Bernard
Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex, and now lives mainly in
the USA with his wife. In addition to the hugely successful Sharpe
novels, Bernard Cornwell is the author of the Starbuck Chronicles, the
Warlord trilogy, the Grail Quest series, the Alfred series and
standalone battle books Azincourt and The Fort.
