Sharpe's eagle
Richard Sharpe and the Talavera campaign July 1809
by Bernard Cornwell
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Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of action"Sharpe asked three things of his men. That they fought as he did with a ruthless professionalism.That they stole only from the enemy and the dead unless they were starving. And they never got drunk without his permission."Richard Sharpe is having a difficult war. Excluded from promotion because he is always on the battlefield, up against pompous, incompetent colonels, and worst, suddenly finding himself at the head of an inexperienced company who use all twenty five drill book approved movements to load and fire their muskets.A soldier like Sharpe can't be kept down though and his promotion to Captain, when it comes, makes a dangerous enemy in the upper ranks. As Sharpe approaches bloody battle in Talavera, he knows he is fighting for his own honour and that of his men.
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Fiction, Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character), Great Britain in fiction, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 in fiction, Military History, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Historical Fiction, Peninsular War, 1807-1814, Soldiers, Talavera, Battle of, Talavera de la Reina, Spain, 1809, Fiction, war & military, Great britain, fiction, Sharpe, richard (fictitious character), fiction, Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Guerre d'Espagne, 1807-1814, Romans, nouvellesPlaces
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Sharpe's Eagle
April 1, 1994, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Harpercollins Pub Ltd
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Sharpe's eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera campaign July 1809
1987, Penguin Books
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Sharpe's eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera campaign July 1809
1981, Viking Press
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Sharpe's eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign July 1809
1981, Fontana
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1981.
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