Sharpe's Siege

Name: Sharpe's Siege
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Bernard Cornwell
ISBN: 9781455100415

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/17/2005

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Sharpes mission seems simple: capture a defenseless French coastal fort, cripple Napoleons supply lines, and retreat across the sea. But old enemy Pierre Ducos lies in wait behind the lines with a French battalion and a general who scalps his dead enemies for trophies.

About Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell is the author of over fifty novels, including the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales, which serve as the basis for the hit Netflix series The Last Kingdom. He lives with his wife on Cape Cod and in Charleston, South Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Diamond on April 15, 2022

An other great addition to this masterful series by Bernard Cornwell. This book is full of great stragity, luck and manly fortitude. I recommend this series to all. Each book can also be read as a stand alone. Be Blessed.......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on October 02, 2021

Read this book in 2007, and its the 18th part, chronologically, of the great Richard Sharpe series. This book is set in the year AD 1814, with Richard Sharpe now being a Major, and in full flow during the Winter campaign of that same year of AD 1814. Trapped in a fort, behind enemy lines, and with amm......more

Goodreads review by Benghis on March 11, 2023

This was a delightful and engaging Sharpe book, though like most of the other fully fictionalized adventures, it didn't have the same impact for me as most of the books centered around a real historical battle. I just enjoy spending time with the character Richard Sharpe so much that we could be doi......more

Goodreads review by Abby on April 13, 2021

Wow. Just. Wow. This book is soooooo much better than its correlating episode. Like so much better you wonder what was wrong with the writers of the show. How could they choose to take this story and turn it into what they did? The episode is semi-comical with a bumbling French general and Sharpe an......more