Sharpe's Rifles (Sharpe, #6)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781850575481 (1850575487)
Publish date: April 1st 1990
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Pages no: 479
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
19th Century,
Modern,
Action,
Spain
Series: Sharpe Books 8 (#6)
Format: Audio (cds from Library)Narrated By: Frederick DavidsonOriginal Publication Year: 1988Genre(s): Historical FictionSeries: Sharpe #6Awards: NoneI really enjoy well researched historical fiction particularly that which focuses on Regency Era England. I’ve read Bernard Cornwell’s Warlord Chron...
This was my first meeting with Sharpe and his guys. And boy I fell in love with them and fast. And boy did he and Harper start off the wrong foot or what? :)
Cornwell is a "poor man's" Patrick O'Brian but his series of novels about Richard Sharpe, set in the same period of the Napoleonic Wars as O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, are very readable and very enjoyable, and one shouldn't turn one's nose up at them.