Waterloo does not have the grisly carnage of Pressfield's superb Gates of Fire. But it does bring home the horror of war in a way that makes the old movie version (with Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as Wellington) seem almost tame in comparison. Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe series takes its hero to the battle of Waterloo--and beyond. Several novels are the basis of a television miniseries. He was born in London and lives in Chatham, Massachusetts. --This text refers to the paperback edition/5(). Sharpe's Waterloo: Richard Sharpe And The Waterloo Campaign, 15 June To 18 June (Hardcover) Published by Chivers Press. Large Print, Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author), Gino D'Achille (Illustrator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language.
Share your Thoughts for Sharpes Waterloo. Rate this Book. Write a Review. Submit. Popular Books. Reads. Sharpes Revenge: Richard Sharpe and the Peace of Reads. Sharpes Eagle: Richard Sharpe and the Talavera Campaign, July Bernard Cornwell by Bernard Cornwell. Reads. Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell. Reads. Unti. by Jamie Day. I n Sharpe's Waterloo, Bernard Cornwell provides a soldier's perspective of Napoleon's last and most famous campaign. Through our hero, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Sharpe (now a reluctant staff officer), we see the skirmishes as the French cross the frontier, the battle at Quatre Bras, the retreat in torrential rain to La Belle Alliance, and the climactic engagement at Waterloo. After reading Bernard Cornwell's recent account of the Battle of Waterloo, I decided to read his earlier historical fiction account of Sharpe's involvement in this pivotal battle. For most of the book, Sharpe was an observer, moving from one part of the battlefield to another.
Bernard Cornwell's twenty-plus (and growing!) volume Richard Sharpe series has built and built and built to the titanic battle of Waterloo. Sharpe has fought in Flanders, India, Portugal, Spain, and France, and everything in his storied career has led him to this little valley with the odd name. And it led Napoleon and Wellington there, too. Waterloo was originally intended to be the last book of a 11 part Sharpe series but since completion Cornwell has added to Sharpe's career and polished his character a bit. Sharpe's waterloo well my copy is just called waterloo as the name suggest is more about the battle than Sharpe, As it should be. It would have been a stretch to make this "Sharpe's Waterloo". Cornwell does well to find a couple of key places to throw Sharpe into the action, helping hold a key redoubt, a walled farm, early in the day, and rallying one of three battered British units - another led by Wellington himself - to stand and hold against a superior French advance late in the day.
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