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Sharpe's Triumph

  • 382 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1998
  • 34 editions

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1 About this book

The next installment in Bernard Cornwell’s wildly popular Sharpe series. Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803It is India, 1803. In the four years since he earned his sergeant's stripes, young Richard Sharpe has led a relatively peaceful existence.

But Sharpe's reverie ends when he barely survives a murderous act of treason by a bitter English officer who has joined the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation, determined to drive the British from the continent.

Vowing to hunt down the turncoat, Sharpe plunges headlong into the white-hot battle of Assaye alongside Sir Arthur Wellesley -- the future of Duke of Wellington -- in the fiercest fight of his career. Sharpe's Triumph is a riveting story of betrayal and revenge that showcases the deft blend of suspenseful military adventure and sweeping historical detail that has made Bernard Corwell's books bestsellers around the world.

Good for readers who want: historical fiction and a war story.

  • Historical fiction
  • Military History
  • India
  • India, history
  • War stories
  • Great britain
  • War & military
  • Soldiers

2 About Bernard Cornwell

Born 1944

Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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