Harper Paperbacks Sharpe's Triumph: The Battle of Assaye, September 1803

I've been reading the Cornwell books for a very long time and enjoy re-reading them every few years. Slowly building up my collection and this is a great way (and price) to do it.

One of the best of the series. Cornwell is at his best when Sharpe is involved in a real historical battle.

In diesem Buch beschreibt Cromwell die frpheren Jahre des Richard Sharpe in Indien. Es geht darum, wie Sharpe, in dem er in einer Schlacht in Indien das Leben eines Gernerals rettet, und so zum Offizier befördert wird. Wie immer mit dabei sein schlimmster Feind und Wiedersacher Sergant Hakeswill!Bereits hier tritt nun ein deutlicher Unterschied zur TV Serie auf, in der Sgt. Sharpe Wellington das Leben rettete und dadurch zum Leuntnant wird.

In this second book of the series, Richard Sharpe is now a Sergeant still stationed in India. The year is 1803 and after surviving a massacre ordered by a mercenary European officer called Major Dodd, Sharpe sets off to find and bring him back to justice with his old friend Colonel McCandless of the East India Company. Sharpe had shared an adventure with the Colonel in the previous book. As with the first book in the series, Sharpe’s army career runs parallel with the Duke of Wellington who is at present known as General Wellesley and is looking to increase his good reputation as a General in in the Battle of Assaye where the British army is outnumbered by ten to one. I found this book highly entertaining and fast-paced with lots of action. I’ve been a fan of Bernard Cornwall for some time but only started reading the Sharpe series recently. I really don’t know what took me so long to get into them, but I will certainly read the next book in the series in the not too distant future.

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