Sharpe's Eagle

“Sharpe’s Eagle” is the novel that launched Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe, and the series’ formula is already firmly in place. It follows Sharpe and his riflemen through the Talavera campaign of July 1809, in the Peninsular War. Some readers who come to it after the chronologically earlier books find it less nuanced, with a hero who can do no wrong and villains signposted from the start. Readers who go in publication order begin here.

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