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Bernard Cornwell
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0006175244
Pub: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub date: 1988-02-25
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2510
Reader Reviews:
Keeps getting better (1/1 people found this helpful)
Another excellent novel by Bernard Cornwell, they just keep getting better! No doubt that is partly due to the fact that, as you progress in the Sharpe-series, you get to know many of the characters better and better (Harper, William Frederickson, Hagman, Ducos, Hogan, and so on and so forth), while the plots and action scenes are invariably superb. Cornwell will never win the Nobel prize, but he certainly knows how to entertain so if it's that you're looking for have no fears whatsoever: this book is for you.
Sharpe's Siege. (0/0 people found this helpful)
Sharpe's siege is the 15th book in the fantastic Sharpe series by the acclaimed writer Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe has returned to the peninsular war after finding recruits to save the South Essex's from extinction. In this novel Sharpe is entering France for the first time but he come up against some formidable odds like the cunning French spy Major Pierre Ducos who is trying to kill Sharpe as all ways and the might of General Calvet's brigade which he defeats and he returns home safely to Wellington, to fight another day.
Probably the BEST novel of the series... TRY IT... (1/1 people found this helpful)
You see, either you know the characters or not... so;
1) If you do not have read a SHARPE (and Harper) novel this is as good a place to start as any... even the author has said it is his favorite book on the series... and I humbly agree...
2) If you know them, you already know what to expect... but this one is the one to consider A GREAT ACTION NOVEL...
Set in 1813 after the battle of Vitoria and the Allied Invasion of France (from the south) the action is gripping and full of turns...
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
ADB
PS: If you enjoy probably the best thing to do is to read them in chronological order as the Aubrey-Maturin series... actually I prefer date of publication order because some of the prequels are "to mature" and then you find a too naive SHARPE from SHARPE's EAGLE onwards...
GREAT NOVELS TO BE SURE (excepting the post-Napoleonic one...)
Richard Sharpe takes his riflemen into Napoleonic France (11/11 people found this helpful)
Described by Sharpe's creator Bernard Cornwell as his personal favourite amongst the series of novels, Sharpe's Siege is yet another class act.
Sharpe and his henchmen Harper and Frederickson are once more up against desperate odds - battling the old enemy for the first time on French territory as well as striving to make the best of a bad officer lot. The difference this time is that it is the naked and naïve ambition of a Royal Naval captain and the treachery of a French sympathiser that puts Sharpe and his men in danger of their lives. Sharpe, a recently married man, is also in great fear for the well-being of his wife - from whom he has been separated by the powers-that-be just as she seems to have contracted a deadly fever from Sharpe's old mentor, Major Hogan.
Things are not looking good when Sharpe's riflemen are abandoned after a coastal hit and run raid on a fortress goes wrong, courtesy of the inept naval officer. Being set in 1813 with Britain facing up to not only the French but also the United States, Cornwall takes the opportunity to give Sharpe a further adversary with whom to contend as a seagoing American privateer and his crew add fuel to the mix. And as if this isn't enough, Sharpe's old nemesis, Pierre Ducos, arrives to exact personal revenge against the battle-scarred rifleman. The rifleman and his assorted collection of greenjackets and marines dig in deep in an attempt to hold the fortress until succour arrives.
Sharpe is at his most ruthless and compassionate as he tries to keep his cold, hungry and war weary troops safe. Cornwell is certainly right to rank Sharpe's Siege as one of the more outstanding escapades of his most well known creation, Major Richard Sharpe.
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