Richard Sharpe Adventures: Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (Audiobook)

from suerule

Love all the Sharpe series.

from BooksForDinner

I'm reading these books in chronological order, not in the order Cornwell penned them, and this is the very first Sharpe book he wrote... a little different in style, but to be expected, as the first books from the series i read were the last ones he wrote... still, solid adventure craziness.

from bdtrump

Sharpe's first canon experience as a member of the Rifles, the work is fun for anyone interested in Napoleonic historical fiction. This work focuses on Sharpe's struggles asserting his authority as Lieutenant promoted through the ranks in the midst of a difficult and costly retreat in Napoleonic ...

from DinadansFriend

Sharpe's history of the Peninsular War starts here, in the 9th book written on him by Cornwell. It's good fun, fairly historically accurate, and sets up the characters well, but that's not too surprizing, as we already know them. But I began Sharpe with this effort and was honestly sucked in. Kee...

from ksmyth

Though Bernard Cornwell has added many more Sharpe's novels to the collection, Sharpe's Rifles is the first in the original series of eleven books that goes chronologically from the defeat of Sir John Moore's column in Spain in 1809 to the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. We meet Lie...