![]() ‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. This lavish edition features a colour frontispiece and three black and white illustrations by award-winning scratchboard artist Douglas Smith, as well as newly redrawn maps. In an exclusive new introduction for the Folio edition Bernard Cornwell explores his passion for the period and reveals the surprising story behind the creation of historical fiction’s favourite rogue. ![]() ![]() It is here that Sharpe first shows his ingenuity and bravery, and it is also where he begins his long and bloody enmity with the odious Sergeant Hakeswill … When the acclaimed TV series starring Sean Bean gave readers an even greater appetite for Sharpe’s stories, Cornwell took him back to the conflicts in India at the very start of the 1800s – the result is an irresistible peek at the origins of a legend. With men like Sharpe, Lawford thought, how could they lose?īernard Cornwell’s enormously popular Sharpe series follows the career of one soldier across the Napoleonic Wars as he rises through the ranks to become a highly skilled leader of men. ![]()
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