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| Title | : | Sharpe's Eagle (Sharpe #8) |
| Author | : | Bernard Cornwell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2004 by Signet (first published January 1st 1981) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. War. Adventure |
Bernard Cornwell
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.26 | 11467 Users | 294 Reviews
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After the cowardly incompetence of two officers besmirches their name, Captain Richard Sharpe must redeem the regiment by capturing the most valued prize in the French Army—a golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Napoleon himself.Details Books During Sharpe's Eagle (Sharpe #8)
| Original Title: | Sharpe's Eagle |
| ISBN: | 0451212576 (ISBN13: 9780451212573) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Sharpe #8, Richard Sharpe #1 |
| Characters: | Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Henry Simmerson, Christian Gibbons, Josefina LaCosta, Thomas Leroy |
| Setting: | Talavera,1809(Spain) |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 11467 Users | 294 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books Sharpe's Eagle (Sharpe #8)
I'm reading them in chronological order, rather than order published. So this my book 8 but actually the first one that the author wrote.Interesting that there doesn't have seen to be any continuity errors with the previous 7 books.Same style - historically accurate, with plenty of detail but fast paced thriller that becomes a page turner. Here we are in the battle of Talavera - Spanish/English/Germans against the French at the height of Napoleons armies strengths.As usual with the Sharpe books-Update:I have revised my rating as I have reflected on this book. I believe I allowed my bias to impact my decision on the book. In reflection, I feel like the book itself is a well written work that has an engaging story. This book has left a positive imprint on my memory and have changed my rating appropriately.=============I wanted to like this book, but I feel it let me down. There were parts that I really enjoyed and parts that I found to be uninteresting. I believe part of the problem is
The quintessential Richard Sharpe novel. Sharpe's Eagle is where so many of the familiar faces that recur throughout the series originally crop up. Most notably Sir Henry Simmerson...(Simmerson as so aptly played by actor Michael Cochrane in the tv series.)He's the snobbish, ineffectual British officer everyone loves to hate. With him arrives the utterly inexperienced South Essex regiment, which Sharpe is forced to batter into something like fighting shape or otherwise inevitably perish with
Bernard Cornwell does an excellent job of detailing the events of Sharpe in this book. I personally love the series being a fan of the books and the TV series. The story is. The Struggling Sharpe is a Captain on Sufferance meaning he is only a Captain because of someone dying. He needs to earn or do something heroic to make sure he earns and stays a captain. So after the start events where the Colors get taken by the enemy (which is the worse thing possible to an army that can happen, losing
For the last while, I've been on-and-off reading the Sharpe books in Chronological order of setting, putting this at number 8 in the list.If, instead, I had opted to read them in order published, this would've been number 1.As such, it's interesting seeing how the tone for the series was originally set, and how the template for pretty much all the books (Sharpe fighting just as much - if not more - against his own side than the enemy) came to be set. Even this early on, Sharpe is given a history
Better than I thought.Bernard`s first & I can see the stuff of later novels in it.I prefer his Uhtred & Arthur novels but I like how Sharpe has a big Irish mate like Uhtred has a little Irish mate.Might even read more of his Sharpe`s someday.
So here we are, the very first Cornwell novel and coincidentally the first Sharpe. I came to this series after it had been ostensibly completed and so I'm reading them in chronological order, which differs markedly from publication order. I'm kind of racking my brain trying to think of other series that has such a disparity like that and I'm at a loss. A situation like this is just rife with potential for weird inconsistencies in style and continuity, and they're definitely there but they
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