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Sharpe's Triumph [181-011-3.5]

By: Bernard Cornwell

Category: fiction historical

Synopsis:

India, 1803.

siege of Seringapatarh, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have
discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is
rudely shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an
English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join
the mercenary army of the Mahratta Confederation commanded by the
flamboyant Hanoverian, Anthony Pohlmann.

Sharpe is ordered to join the hunt for the renegade Englishman, a hunt
that will take him deep into the enemy's territory where he will face
temptations more subtle than he has ever dreamed of. And behind him,
relentlessly stalking him, comes his worst enemy, the baleful,
twitching Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who is determined to break Sharpe
once and for all.

The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye where
Sir Arthur Wellesley, with a tiny British army, faces the Mahratta
horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley decides to fight, and
Sergeant Richard Sharpe is plunged into the white heat of a battle that
will make Wellesley's reputation. It will make Sharpe's name too, but
only if he can survive the carnage and killing frenzy, for it is at
Assaye that he at last realizes his ambition and has a chance to seize
it.

?ckoned to b greatest achievement. It will delight the millions of
readers who have enjoyed Sharpe's.later adventures in the Peninsular
War and at Waterloo.


By the same author The Sharpe novels (in chronological order)

SHARPE'S TIGER

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Senngapatam, 1799

SHARPE'S RIFLES

Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, "January 1809

SHARPF'S EAGLE