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Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The adventures during the Napoleonic Wars of Captain Richard Sharpe, a British officer who rose from the ranks. While in Spain he orders the execution of two French soldiers for rape, earning thereby the enmity of a nasty French general. By the author of Sharpe's Devil.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 15
Publisher
Sharpe Appreciation Society
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1986
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1985
Language
English
Description
An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to Sharpe's imprisonment.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 19
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Sharpe's mission has seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But behind the lines, Sharpe's old enemy, Pierre Ducos, awaits Sharpe's arrival with a battalion of French soldiers and a vicious commanding general who keeps the scalps of his dead enemies as trophies. Outmaneuvered by Ducos's treachery and abandoned by his own navy, Sharpe has only two choices: to escape...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When a bitter English officer defects from the East India Company to join the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation, Richard Sharpe hunts down the turncoat and is hurled into the battle of Assay alongside the Duke of Wellington.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1805, British soldier Richard Sharpe is faced with a new enemy when the ship carrying him to England is attacked by a French warship and he discovers that the French vessel is carrying a treaty that ignites hostilities against the British in India.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1799, the British Army is fighting its way through India in an attempt to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive his French allies out. Posing as a deserter, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must penetrate into the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there. Success will mean winning his sergeant stripes; failure, being turned over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners--or his...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
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