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, Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
, Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
, Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
, Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813
, US: Agincourt
, Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
, Richard Sharpe and the Occupation of Paris, 1815
, Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
, Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803
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, Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of France, June to November 1813
, Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Portugal, Spring 1809
, Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1811
, Richard Sharpe and the Destruction of Almeida, August 1810
, Richard Sharpe and the Defense of Portugal, Christmas 1812
, US: Killer's Wake
, Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811
, Two short stories, 1813
, Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807
, Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814
, Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812
, Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July 1809
, Richard Sharpe and the defence of the Tormes, August 1812
, Richard Sharpe and the Peace of 1814
, Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812
, Richard Sharpe and the Emperor, 1820–1821
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Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset … Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset to fight against the French in Brittany and, afterwards, at the Battle of Crécy in 1346 in Picardy. It is a tale of longbows and butchery, especially when England's archers swarm into the Norman city of Caen. And over it all, like a dream, hovers the grail which is the epitome of chivalry and Christian decency, qualities which are in desperately short supply as the armies of France and England struggle at the beginning of what will be known as the Hundred Years' War.t will be known as the Hundred Years' War.
, The horrors of Antietam.
, Sharpe's peaceful life in France is disrupted when an old associate of Ducos, convinced Sharpe has Napoleon's treasure, takes his family hostage and Sharpe has to convince the local villagers to help him.
, The Fort is about the Penobscot Expedition … The Fort is about the Penobscot Expedition of 1779. A small British garrison was established in what is now Maine . Seven hundred British redcoats were in an unfinished fort, Fort George, while the harbour beneath the fort was guarded by three sloops-of-war. Against this the rebel government in the State of Massachusetts sent an army of around 900 men and a fleet of 42 ships, half of which were warships, with orders to 'captivate, kill or destroy' the invaders.'captivate, kill or destroy' the invaders.
, Sharpe helps the Duke of Wellington root out a group of fanatical post-war revolutionaries in Paris and has to face an assassin bent on killing him.
, Sharpe has to go home from India, and he would have left in 1805 and Cape Trafalgar lies on his way home, so why should he not be there at the right time?
, Describes the fateful year in which the Da … Describes the fateful year in which the Danes capture Alfred's kingdom and drive him as a fugitive into the marshes of Athelney. It seems that Wessex, and England, are destroyed, but Alfred is determined to make one desperate gamble that might save his kingdom.perate gamble that might save his kingdom.
, Azincourt is the tale of Nicholas Hook, an … Azincourt is the tale of Nicholas Hook, an archer, who begins the novel by joining the garrison of Soissons, a city whose patron saints were Crispin and Crispinian. What happened at Soissons shocked all Christendom, but in the following year, on the feast day of Crispin and Crispinian, Hook finds himself in that small army trapped at Azincourt. The novel is the story of the archers who helped win a battle that has entered legend, but in truth is a tale, as Sir John Keegan says, 'of slaughter-yard behaviour and outright atrocity'.ter-yard behaviour and outright atrocity'.
, An eccentric and reluctant aristocrat just wants to be left alone to be a sea-gypsy, but a theft from his ancestral home hauls him back to Britain and mayhem.
, The ghastly tale of the battle of Fuentes d'Onoro, a bloody struggle on the Portuguese frontier which deteriorated into a gutter fight in the narrow alleys of a small village.
, A convalescent cruise in the Bahamas turns murderous with cocaine.
, Starbuck goes back to Bull Run for the second battle.
, Tells of the years which followed the deat … Tells of the years which followed the death of Alfred the Great as two men struggle to inherit the crown of Wessex. Uhtred has to contend with betrayal, treachery and the largest army the Danes have yet assembled to conquer Wessex, all brought to a climax in a winter battle fought in the fens of East Anglia. battle fought in the fens of East Anglia.
, It tells the tale of the battle of Talavera.
, A man goes home to Cape Cod to escape a world of European treachery and his involvement with the Provisional IRA. Others have different plans for him.
, The Northmen invade from Ireland, led by a fierce Viking warrior, Ragnall Iverson. He must face defender Uhtred, fighting to defend lands ruled by King Edward and his sister Aethelflaed.
, Tells the story of the horrifying assault … Tells the story of the horrifying assault on Badajoz in 1812. The British were in a foul mood, they had been given a hard time by the garrison and suspected that the city's Spanish inhabitants were French sympathisers, so when they got inside they went berserk.so when they got inside they went berserk.
, At the end of The Winter King Arthur fought the battle that forces unity on the warring British kingdoms and now he sets out to face the real enemy – the Saxons.
, The story of the battle – and Sharpe's part in it.
, The Elizabethan world of William Shakespeare and particularly his brother Richard is the backdrop for a world of scheming and drama.
, Sharpe's Havoc is set during the French invasion of Portugal in 1809 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's devastating counter-attack.
, Takes Nate Starbuck from Ball's Bluff to the bloody campaign in the peninsula, where the unregarded Robert Lee assumes command of the rebel army.
, It is the late summer of 1810 and the Fren … It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a stunning victory, the French are not stopped.nning victory, the French are not stopped.
, Can our hero save the world from the environmentalists? Someone has to.
, Gallows Thief is a detective story, set in … Gallows Thief is a detective story, set in Regency London, a time when there were no detectives as such. There was a very busy gallows, however. This was a period when the English and Welsh gallows were at their busiest and, very occasionally, the government appointed an 'Investigator' to look into a conviction. 'Investigator' to look into a conviction.
, Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex … Uhtred, having helped Alfred secure Wessex as an independent Saxon kingdom, returns north in an attempt to find his stepsister. Instead he discovers chaos, civil war and treachery in Northumbria. He takes the side of Guthred, once a slave and now a man who would be king, and in return expects Guthred's help in capturing Dunholm, the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.the lair of the dark Viking lord, Kjartan.
, Tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex.
, Wessex, Alfred's kingdom, has survived the great Viking assaults and now, with Uhtred as a leader, the West Saxon forces begin the campaigns of conquest that will end with a new kingdom called England.
, The beginning of the Peninsular War . The … The beginning of the Peninsular War . The Peninsular Campaign occupies most of the Sharpe series and this book begins during the infamous retreat to Corunna. Sharpe and a group of the 95th Rifles become separated from the army and are forced to navigate french occupied territory.ced to navigate french occupied territory.
, Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Nor … Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria’s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia’s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England’s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago and which his scheming cousin still occupies. which his scheming cousin still occupies.
, Sharpe's first story as an officer takes him to the daunting fort of Gawilghur. This is also the last of his Indian adventures.
, The years after King Alfred’s death are peaceful: the Danes rule in northern Britain, the Saxons hold the south. But for a warrior, a time of restless peace is the hardest challenge. Too often, it allows the cautious and the timid to dominate.
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, Nathaniel Starbuck stumbles into the Confederate army and finds himself at the first Bull Run.
, A story of love, rivalry, treachery and a great mysterious temple set in the year 2000 BC.
, Redcoat is the story of the Valley Forge winter during the American Revolution – told from the redcoat's point of view.
, Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stor … Sharpe's Christmas contains two short stories, 'Sharpe's Christmas' and 'Sharpe's Ransom'. 'Sharpe's Christmas' is set in 1813, towards the end of the Peninsular War and falls after Sharpe's Regiment. 'Sharpe's Ransom' comes after Sharpe's Waterloo and is set in peacetime.Sharpe's Waterloo and is set in peacetime.
, Uhtred has been summoned to attend a Witan at Tamweorthin . He obeys the summons even though he knows one of his bitterest enemies, Ealdorman Aethelhelm, will try to have him killed.
, Thomas of Hookton has been sent back to En … Thomas of Hookton has been sent back to England to pursue his father's mysterious legacy which hints that the Holy Grail might exist and gets tangled with the Scottish invasion of 1347. He survives that only to discover that various powerful folk in France are pursuing the same quest, a complication that takes Thomas back to Brittany and the brutal fighting about La Roche-Derrien.he brutal fighting about La Roche-Derrien.
, Sharpe's Fury is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barossa.
, Sharpe finds himself stranded, surrounded and with only one very unlikely ally – Captain Cornelius Killick from Marblehead, Massachusetts.
, After the death of Uther, High King of Bri … After the death of Uther, High King of Britain, the country falls into chaos. Uther's heir is a child, Mordred, and Arthur, his uncle, is named one of the boy's guardians. Arthur has to fight other British kingdoms and the dreadful "Sais" – the Saxons – who are invading Britain." – the Saxons – who are invading Britain.
, In Excalibur we follow Arthur and Derfel t … In Excalibur we follow Arthur and Derfel to the battle of Mount Badon and incredible victory. It not only throws the Saxons back, but reunites Arthur and Guinevere. He might hope now to be left alone, to have a time of peace after gaining a great victory, but new enemies arise to destroy all he has achieved.mies arise to destroy all he has achieved.
, Sharpe, at last, meets Napoleon.
, Sharpe is assigned to steal some Spanish gold needed to construct the Lines of Torres Vedras but falls foul of a corrupt Spanish partisan and ends up in the besieged fort of Almeida.
, The forces of Wessex and Mercia have unite … The forces of Wessex and Mercia have united against the Danes, but instability and the threat of Viking raids still hang heavy over Britain’s kingdoms. For Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians, is dying, leaving no heir and the stage is set for rivals to fight for the throne.is set for rivals to fight for the throne.
, It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharp … It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a raid and Sharpe is in for a fight!nning a raid and Sharpe is in for a fight!
, Sharpe, now a Sergeant, finds himself alongside Sir Arthur Wellesley at the terrifying Battle of Assaye.
, Pierre Ducos, the French super-agent, tries to end Sharpe's life and the series.
, This tells the tale of one of the most obs … This tells the tale of one of the most obscure campaigns of the whole of the Napoleonic wars. The Danes had a huge merchant fleet, second only in size to Great Britain's, and to protect it they possessed a formidable navy. But Denmark was a very small country and when, in 1807, the French decide they will invade Denmark and take the fleet for themselves, Britain has to act swiftly. Swiftly, but not particularly justly.tly. Swiftly, but not particularly justly.
, Thomas of Hookton travels south into Gasco … Thomas of Hookton travels south into Gascony and to a final confrontation with his cousin, Guy Vexille. The novel begins with the fall of Calais in 1347, and most of the events occur in the subsequent truce, but for Thomas and his companions there can be no truce, only a vicious small war which ends with them being besieged, not just by enemies intent on finding the grail, but by the Black Death.finding the grail, but by the Black Death.
, Thomas of Hookton leads a company of mercenary archers who ravage the countryside of Gascony. Hookton must complete a crucial task before joining the Black Prince's army to fight at the Battle of Poitiers (1356).
, A crippled veteran of the Falklands War sails into the north Atlantic to discover whether a famous television presenter is a murderer.
, Off Bebbanburg fishermen and their boats are disappearing. As their lord, Uhtred has a responsibility to deal with the issue, so he sets sail and sets a trap.
, This takes place between the end of the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign – and Sharpe pursues Ducos to Italy, though not before he's fought in the climactic battle at Toulouse which is Wellington's last victory in the Peninsular War.
, By 1812 a lot of men had deserted from the … By 1812 a lot of men had deserted from the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese armies and some of them, too many of them, had banded together in the border mountains where they were led by a renegade Frenchman nicknamed Pot-au-Feu. They formed a semi-military group of bandits and their enemies all agreed on one thing – they had to be crushed. Send for Sharpe.– they had to be crushed. Send for Sharpe.
, Uhtred is an English boy, born into the ar … Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of 9th Century Northumbria, but orphaned at ten, adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the last English kingdom when the Danes have overrun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.errun Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
, The first of Richard Sharpe's Indian adventures, pitting him against the sinister Tippoo Sultan in the siege of Seringapatam, 1799.
, Sharpe is sent home to raise soldiers for his regiment, the South Essex, and once in England he runs into an old enemy – Sir Henry Simmerson, once a Colonel of the South Essex and now, what else, a taxman.
, In which Sharpe carries his sword to the extraordinary battle outside Salamanca where, to quote an enemy General, Wellington 'destroyed forty thousand Frenchmen in forty minutes'.
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Stormchild
, Sharpe's Trafalgar
, The Empty Throne
, Redcoat
, Sharpe's Enemy
, Sharpe's Sword
, Sharpe's Prey
, Battle Flag
, Sharpe's Devil
, Sharpe's Havoc
, Stonehenge
, Sharpe's Waterloo
, Sharpe's Fortress
, Sharpe's Regiment
, The Last Kingdom
, The Winter King
, Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
, Warriors of the Storm
, Sword Song
, Sharpe's Rifles
, Sharpe's Battle
, The Lords of the North
, Rebel
, Sharpe's Tiger
, Wildtrack
, Sharpe's Eagle
, Harlequin
, Sharpe's Skirmish
, War Lord
, Sharpe's Company
, Sharpe's Gold
, The Pagan Lord
, Crackdown
, Sharpe's Triumph
, The Bloody Ground
, Fools and Mortals
, Death of Kings
, Gallows Thief
, Enemy of God
, War of the Wolf
, Sharpe's Escape
, Sharpe's Ransom
, The Flame Bearer
, Sharpe's Honour
, Copperhead
, Sea Lord
, Vagabond
, The Fort
, Sharpe's Revenge
, Heretic
, Sharpe's Assassin
, The Burning Land
, Azincourt
, The Pale Horseman
, Sword of Kings
, Sharpe's Siege
, Sharpe's Christmas
, 1356
, Scoundrel
, Sharpe's Fury
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