Bernard Cornwell Sharpes 18 Books Collection Pack Set Bernard Cornwell
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Bernard Cornwell Sharpes 18 Books Collection Pack Set RRP pound 12582 Titles In This Set Sharpes Regiment Sharpes ENEMY Sharpes Gold Sharpes Trafalgar Sharpes Tiger Sharpes Prey Sharpes Escape Sharpes Battle Sharpes Waterloo Sharpes Eagle Sharpes Rifles Sharpes FURY Sharpes Triumph Sharpes Company Sharpes DEVIL Sharpes Siege Sharpes Fortress Sharpes HAVOC Sharpes Devil Taking Richard Sharpe to St Helena & Chile this is an adventure story in the classic tradition Five years after the Battle of Waterloo Sharpes peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered by a plea for help An old friend Don Blas Vivar is missing in Chile reported dead at rebel hands a report his wife refuses to believe She appeals to Sharpe to find out the truth So it is that the reluctant Sharpe & his constant companion in adventure Patrick Harper find themselves bound for Chile via St Helena where they have a fateful meeting with the fallen Emperor Napoleon Sharpe & Harper are convinced that they are on their way to collect a corpse neither can imagine the dangers that await them in Chile Sharpes Enemy A classic Sharpe adventure Richard Sharpe & the Defence of Portugal Christmas 1812 Newly promoted Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains His task is to rescue a group of wellborn women held hostage by a rabble of deserters & one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill Sharpes most implacable enemy But the rescue is the least of Sharpes problems He must face a far greater threat With only the support of his own company & the new Rocket Troop the last word in military incompetence to back his gamble Sharpe cannot afford even to recognize the prospect of defeat For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies The Complete Sharpe Collection Sharpes Waterloo Richard Sharpe & the Waterloo Campaign 15 June to 18 June 1815 It is 1815 Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the inexperienced & incompetent Young Frog William Prince of Orange who has been given command of a large proportion of the Allied force More concerned with cutting a dash at a grand society ball in Brussels the Young Frog refuses to listen to Sharpes scouting reports of an enormous army marching towards them with the lately returned Napoleon at its head When the Battle of Waterloo commences Sharpe has to stand by & watch military folly on a grand scale But at the height of the conflict just as victory seems impossible he makes a momentous decision With his usual skill courage & determination he takes command & the most hardfought & bloody battle of his career becomes Sharpes own magnificent triumph Sharpes Siege A classic Sharpe adventure Richard Sharpe & the Winter Campaign 1814 The invasion of France is under way & the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe He & a small force of Riflemen are to capture a fortress & secure a landing on the French coast It is to be one of the most dangerous missions of his career Through the incompetence of a recklessly ambitious naval commander & the machinations of his old enemy French spymaster Pierre Ducos Sharpe finds himself abandoned in the heart of enemy territory facing overwhelming forces & the very real prospect of defeat He has no alternative but to trust his fortunes to an American privateer a man who has no love for the British invaders Sharpes Regiment Major Sharpe should be fighting the French but his worst enemies are in England Major Richard Sharpes men were in mortal danger not from the French but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall Unless reinforcements could be brought from England the depleted South Essex would be disbanded their troops scattered throughout the army Determined not to see his regiment die Sharpe returns to England & uncovers a nest of wellbred highranking traitors any one of whom could utterly destroy his career with a word or a stroke of the pen Sharpe is forced into the most desperate gamble of his life & not even the influence of the Prince Regent may be enough to save him Sharpes Company Richard Sharpe & the Siege of Badajoz January to April 1812 The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author It was a hard winter For Richard Sharpe it was the worst he could remember He had lost his command to a wealthy man a man with money to buy the promotion Sharpe coveted & from England came his oldest enemy the ruthless indestructible Hakeswill utterly intent on ruining Sharpe But Sharpe is determined to change his luck & the surest way is to lead the bloody attack on the impregnable fortress town of Badajoz a road to almost certain death or unimagined glory Sharpes Battle Richard Sharpe & the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro May 1811 In the spring of 1811 while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro Richard Sharpe & his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup & suffer heavy losses Sharpe has already clashed once with Loup & the Frenchman has sworn to have his revenge After the attack Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career & reputation as the armys high command tries to blame him for the disaster With thousands of French troops massing at a tiny village nearby Sharpes only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield To save his honour Sharpe must lead his men to glory in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Onoro The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author Sharpes Fury The acclaimed twentyfirst novel in the number one bestselling series featuring Richard Sharpe In the winter of 1811 the war seems lost All Spain has fallen to the French except for Cadiz now the Spanish capital & itself under siege In Cadiz Richard Sharpe discovers more than one enemy One of them a baleful priest finds a weapon to break the British alliance & Sharpe must find ways to defeat him in a sinister war of knife & treachery in the dark alleys of the city As a small British force is trapped by a French army their only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats who on a hill beside the sea refuse to admit defeat & there in the sweltering horror of Barrosa Sharpe finds his old enemy Colonel Vandal once again Sharpes Escape The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series It is 1810 & the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal Facing them is a wasted land stripped of food by Wellingtons orders & captain Richard Sharpe But Sharpe is in trouble His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat & he has made a new enemy a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus Sharpe discarded by his regiment wages a private war against Ferragus a war fought through the burning pillaged streets of Coimbra Portugals ancient university city Sharpes enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent & a prickly English governess whose first aim is to clean up Sharpes language Sharpes Escape begins on the great gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British & Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massenas crack troops It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die This is a classic Sharpe novel with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper & facing enemies on every side Sharpes Gold Richard Sharpe & the Destruction of Almeida August 1810 Bold professional & determined Richard Sharpe embarks on a desperate mission He must recover the treasure vital to the success of the war now hidden behind enemy lines The gold is in the possession of a powerful guerrilla leader feared by ally & enemy alike & he has no love for Sharpe the man who has stolen his woman But Sharpes fiercest battles lie with the British officers ignorant of his deadly secret & mistrustful of his ruthless methods The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author Sharpes Eagle Richard Sharpe & the Talavera Campaign July 1809 Richard Sharpe bold professional & ruthless goes to war Once a private now he leads his men into action in the bloodiest battle of the war The danger is as great from his enemies on his own side as from those across the battlefield But through treachery & gunsmoke through swordfight & bloody warfare Sharpe saves his own life & the honour of the regiment The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author Sharpes Havoc The latest book in the brilliant bestselling Sharpe series brings Sharpe to Portugal & reunites him with Harper It is 1809 & Lieutenant Sharpe who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal is sent to look for Kate Savage the daughter of an English wine shipper But before he can discover the missing girl the French onslaught on Portugal