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Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803
by: Bernard Cornwell

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006510314
ISBN: 0006510310
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: March 06, 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sales Rank: 2248

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- An Officer's Life Has Its Drawbacks for Richard Sharpe
Sharpe's Fortress is the third of the stories about Richard Sharpe in India. If you haven't read Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's Triumph, I strongly urge you to read those books before this one. You'll like them, and they provide very helpful background for the events in Sharpe's Fortress.

After saving Sir Arthur Wellesley's life at the Battle of Assaye (described in Sharpe's Triumph, book two in chronology in the series), Richard Sharpe was raised out of the ranks into the officer class as an ensign. In Sharpe's Fortress, it becomes obvious that he's arrived in no man's land in a Scottish unit. The Scots don't want any English in the unit; most ensigns are about 12 years old and don't do anything except watch; and men in the ranks ... Read More:

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- Excellent as always
These prequel books are excellent. Gives you a whole new world of Sharpe before the well known battles against the French. Interesting as well to see the rise of Welesley to his position of power, seems always to go hand in hand with Sharpe. Again as usual, a real page turner which makes you want to order the next book so there is no break in the action!

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- Easily the best of the three Indian stories
Without a doubt, Fortress gives you everything you come to read about Sharpe.
William Dodd has escaped justice again and finds himself defending what is called the Sky Fortress: Gawilghur. Its the final stand and its fantasically bloody, brutal and realistic.
I read this in 1999 when it came out and its been one of my favourite books of all time.
Its a brilliant end to a brilliant trilogy.

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- first rate entertainment
This, chronologically the third book in the Sharpe-series, reads as easily as all others and is perhaps for sheer amount of action one of the best. Sharpie in rare form!

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- Great
I must say I started reading the Sharpe books about last summer (2006) and I've read all 23 and to be honest the first three that I read were the prequels and despite the fact that I read them over the longest time ago I remember them the most. There the ones that got me hooked.
There the best books. mainly thanks to the huge amounts of the disgustingly evil and yet attractive in the same way that prodding a bruise is strangely attractive after you've found you have one. But also I prefer them to the other also brilliant Sharpe books because Sharpe is alone. No high ranking friends because he isn't an officer he's happy how he is but now its all turned up side down after Assaye this is the story of just after that fateful day.
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