Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 |
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Bernard Cornwell
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Pages: 368 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0006510310
Pub: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub date: 2000-03-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19784
Reader Reviews:
Easily the best of the three Indian stories (0/0 people found this helpful)
Without a doubt, Fortress gives you everything you come to read about Sharpe.
William Dodd has escaped justice again and finds himself defending what is called the Sky Fortress: Gawilghur. Its the final stand and its fantasically bloody, brutal and realistic.
I read this in 1999 when it came out and its been one of my favourite books of all time.
Its a brilliant end to a brilliant trilogy.
first rate entertainment (3/3 people found this helpful)
This, chronologically the third book in the Sharpe-series, reads as easily as all others and is perhaps for sheer amount of action one of the best. Sharpie in rare form!
Great (3/3 people found this helpful)
I must say I started reading the Sharpe books about last summer (2006) and I've read all 23 and to be honest the first three that I read were the prequels and despite the fact that I read them over the longest time ago I remember them the most. There the ones that got me hooked.
There the best books. mainly thanks to the huge amounts of the disgustingly evil and yet attractive in the same way that prodding a bruise is strangely attractive after you've found you have one. But also I prefer them to the other also brilliant Sharpe books because Sharpe is alone. No high ranking friends because he isn't an officer he's happy how he is but now its all turned up side down after Assaye this is the story of just after that fateful day.
The shier vivid ness of the battles is what makes them great all of them are so vivid and the story isn't simply one sided it tells you about the Indians point of view as well.
IT IS TRUELLY ONE OF THE BEST SHARPE BOOKS EVER AND THIS IS FROM A TRUE SHARPE FAN BRILIANT WORK FORM CORNWALL
An entertaining interlude (2/2 people found this helpful)
This is the final book of Sharpe's India Campaign.
Sharpe has been promoted to ensign and experiences the dissaproval of fellow 'gentleman' officers, with a similar disdain from the ranks. Not only does he have his own personal doubts to worry about, Sergeant Hakeswill is hot on his heels wit murder and robbery on his mind. Sharpe also has a added goal - to find and kiss colonel Dodd, who he blames for the murder of his good friends and colleague Colonel Mcandlees.
The battles are as always, described in immense detail - blood and guts, gore, strategy, emotion; you can almost smell the gunpowder.
We also see Sharpe growing in stature as a fighter and a soldier; with his reputation growing throughout the army.
A great read that is hard to put down; there is plenty fo entertainment here, as well as an accurate historical look at the British army of the early 19th century
Slow starter, but excellent (7/7 people found this helpful)
Following on from Sharpe's Triumph, this novel follows the build-up to the assualt on Galwigur, the fortress in the sky. Seemingly impregnable, the fortress is the last stronghold of the Mahrattas and Sir Arthur Wellesly, keen to earn a reputation, knows that India can be one only by taking it.
Newly promoted Sharpe finds he is not welcome as an officer, and when he is assigned to bullock driving he discovers that his new superior, with the help of old enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, is selling army supplies for his own profit. His efforts to rectify the situation do not go down well, and a failed plot to have him murdered lead to a bloody trail of revenge. His adventures lead him back to his old regiment, the King's 33rd, and with these men he leads an escalade on the fortress that facilitates it's capture. With no way out, Major Dodd (who escaped Sharpe at the Battle of Assaye) is forced to fight the heroic ensign. Unsurprisingly, Sharpe fairs best and has time to exact further revenge on Hakeswill.
An exciting novel that is a little slow off the ground but conjures a world so vivid that you could be in the leading rank assaulting Galwigur. Gripping stuff.
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