Sharpe's Triumph (Audiobook)

from HenriMoreaux

I'm usually not one for historical military fiction, however I'd previously read Cornwell's Stonehenge and thought it was a great story so when I stumbled upon this for a mere 50 cents I didn't think there would be much downside to the purchase. I can now having finished it confirm that the 50 ce...

from hmskip

Cornwell is a great descriptive writer. I have read three of the Sharpe series and all of them have been the kind of book that I can not put down. They capture the reader from the first page and each succeeding page delivers up more action and pulls me more into the story and the history.

from varielle

It's tough for me to imagine Richard Sharpe with clubbed hair since I can only see him as Sean Bean in his heydey. This is the second in the series of Richard Sharpe's adventures in India. Between the fighting and womanizing Cornwell finds time to shed historical enlightenment about this critical...

from ksmyth

Sharpe's Triumph is the second, chronologically, of the Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell. This is the second of the three books tracing Sharpe's experiences in India. Coming four years after Sharpe's promotion to sergeant following the successful siege of Seringapatam, we find Sharpe jer...

from 5hrdrive

Fascinating account of colonial warfare, hard to believe such an outnumbered force could achieve victory. The details are breathtaking. The first half of the book only merits three stars, but the second half is worth five, so we'll call it four stars for the whole thing.