Author

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell is the British historical-fiction writer behind the Richard Sharpe Napoleonic-war series (24 novels covering the Peninsular War and Waterloo) and the Saxon Stories / Last Kingdom series (13 novels of Alfred the Great and his successors).

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5.0

First published

1988

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Sharpe's Rifles

by Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell 1988 review. Richard Sharpe, a hard-drinking officer of the 95th Rifles, leads a desperate retreat through Galicia in 1809. The entry point to the Sharpe series and one of the strongest military-historical novels of its decade.