Sharpe's Revenge

the Peace of 1814 , #19

368 pages

English language

Published May 28, 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-745289-7
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Bold, professional, ruthless, hero and man of action'Sharpe lost all sense of time. The fear was gone, as it always seemed to vanish once danger was present. Nairne's men, thinned out and bloodied, pushed forward into gun fire. Smoke thickened. Knots of men lay in blood where canister had struck. The wounded called for help, or vomited, or cried, or just lay softly to let death come.'1814. There are rumours that Napoleon is dead, or has run away, but Sharpe has one last, battle to fight before he can lay down his sword - it is the battle for Toulouse. Little does he know it will be one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war.The battle is not the end of Sharpe's challenges - he is stabbed in the back by a whispering campaign branding him a thief and a liar. Sharpe must discover who has framed him, and conduct …

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reviewed Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell (The Sharpes series, #19)

Pulp fiction conclusion

I can’t help but feel that if the writer had written this wrap up to the peninsula war much further into his writing career that it would have been a more fitting ending than the one provided here.

Subjects

  • Sharpe, richard (fictitious character), fiction
  • Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
  • Fiction, war & military