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Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe sidelined on the Royal staff magnificently siezes command at the final moment of the great victory. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the Prince of Orange who refuses to listen to Sharpes reports of an enormous army led by Napoleon marching towards them. The Battle of Waterloo commences & it seems as if Sharpe must stand by & watch the grandest scale of military folly. But at the height of battle as victory seems impossible Sharpe takes command & the most hard-fought & bloody battle of his career becomes his most magnificent triumph. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Richard Sharpe is fighting for his Irish battalion & his own honour through the blood-stained streets of the town. Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort Richard Sharpe & his men are attacked by an elite French unit led by an old enemy of Sharpe s & suffer heavy losses. The army s high command blame Sharpe for the disaster & his military career seems to be ruined. His only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. So with his honour at stake against an overwhelming number of French troops Sharpe leads his men to battle in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Onoro. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Captain Richard Sharpe has to lead the attack on the terrible fortress. 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 & indestructible Hakeswill joins the regiment & he is a man with a mission to ruin Sharpe. But Sharpe is determined to change his luck. The only way
- a desperate choice
- is to volunteer the Forlorn Hope to lead the attack on the impregnable fortress town of Badajoz a road to almost certain death or just possibly to heroic glory. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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The newly promoted Captain Richard Sharpe clashes with an incompetent colonel leads his men in the battle of Talavera & earns himself a dangerous enemy. As Sharpe leads his men in to battle he knows he must fight for the honour of the regiment & his future career. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Major Sharpe in the bitter winter must attempt a desperate rescue & face his most implacable enemy. Newly promoted he is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. & one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill Sharpe s bitter enemy. Sharpe has only the support of his own company & the new Rocket Troop
- the last word in military incompetence
- but he cannot afford to contemplate defeat. For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies... Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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Ensign Richard Sharpe newly made an officer wishes he had stayed a sergeant after he is put in terrible danger by Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill at the impregnable Gawilghur's ravine. To regain his confidence & his authority Sharpe will fight as he has never fought before. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Captain Sharpe has to protect a philandering diplomat & deserted by his ally faces the enemy. In the winter of 1811 the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French except for Cadiz now the Spanish capital & itself under siege. Inside the city walls an intricate diplomatic dance is taking place & Richard Sharpe faces more than one enemy. The small British force is trapped by a French army & their only hope lies with the outnumbered redcoats outside refusing to admit defeat. There in the sweltering horror of Barrosa Sharpe will meet his old enemy Colonel Vandal once again. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Captain Sharpe s task is to recover from a feared guerilla leader the gold Wellington so desperately needs. The enemy he faces strikes terror into the hearts of all around -a renegade guerilla band whose leader has a particular loathing for Sharpe who has stolen his woman. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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A small British army is stranded when the French invade northern Portugal & Lieutenant Richard Sharpe meets the future Duke of Wellington. Sharpe is stranded behind enemy lines but he has Patrick Harper his riflemen & he has the assistance of a young idealistic Portuguese officer. When he is joined by the future Duke of Wellington they immediately mount a counter-attack & Sharpe having been the hunted becomes the hunter once more. Amidst the wreckage of a defeated army in the storm lashed hills of the Portuguese frontier Sharpe takes his revenge. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive hunted by enemy & ally alike. Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's campaign with grim expectancy. For victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain & Spain
- an alliance that must be maintained at any cost. Pierre Ducos the wily French intelligence officer sees a chance both to destroy the alliance & to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe. & when the lovely spy La Marquesa takes a hand in the game Sharpe finds himself enmeshed in a web of political intrigue for which his military expertise has left him fatally unprepared. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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Sharpe's Escape

Richard Sharpe with enemies on every side survives Marshall Massena s attack and ends at the lines of Torres Vedras. Sharpe s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus - a war fought through the burning pillaged streets of Coimbra Portugal s ancient university city. Sharpe s Escape begins on the great gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. Soldier hero rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail and
climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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Richard Sharpe with enemies on every side survives Marshall Massena s attack & ends at the lines of Torres Vedras. Sharpe s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat & he has made a new enemy a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus
- a war fought through the burning pillaged streets of Coimbra Portugal s ancient university city. Sharpe s Escape begins on the great gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British & Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

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