Sharpe's Tiger. Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
In India, Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are planning their siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore. When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to...
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In India, Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are planning their siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore.
When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces, Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, a chance he snatches in order to escape from tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. But in fleeing Hakeswill he enters the confusing, exotic and dangerous Vorld of the Tippoo, and Sharpe will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe.
źródło opisu: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006
źródło okładki: Skan autorski
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0007235046
Publish date: 2006 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Military,
19th Century,
India,
Action,
18th Century
Series: Sharpe (#1)
30/1 - I really enjoyed reading this book but found it quite different from the corresponding tv series. The bits where we hear what Sharpe's thinking were in a tone completely different from what I thought he'd sound like after watching a couple of episodes (I own the dvd set, but haven't watched ...
I'm a big fan of CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower books about a British naval officer during and after the Napoleonic wars, and this has been praised as the Army equivalent. Richard Sharpe is a very different character, and I don't know if I'll become as attached to him as Hornblower, but after th...
My father loved the Sharpe series, and he tried for years to get me to read it. I takes place at the turn of the 19th century, it features British soliders, and it's about the histories of battles and places that I know nothing about. Plus, I was a teenage girl when he suggested that I read this, ...
I'm sure that fans of military historical fiction love this series - I liked Sharpe, and the details of life in the British army were interesting, but the battles... ugh. Too much gory detail, blah blah blah cannons and dust and screaming and... Not my cuppa tea.
Cornwell went backwards to write this prequel to the Sharpe series, which began in the middle of Rifleman Richard Sharpe's career in Wellington's army during the Napoleonic Wars. These later novels, added to the series after Cornwell ran out of war time in which to plunk down his wartime hero, feel ...
11 years ago
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