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Action plus geography. The protagonist moves toward something difficult and the book moves with them.

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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.

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