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 The Sharpe Companion - Mark Adkin
 The Sharpe Companion - Mark Adkin ... 1998-11-16 by HarperCollins Publishers LtdNewest Review: ... wounds during this time due to poor sanitation and diet. The brutal descriptions of the conditions faced by the soldiers, ... more ... and the brutal behaviour of those same soldiers is bluntly described by Cornwell. Often, however, due to a need to get on with the story, the reader is often left wanting to know more; either about a battle, historical characters, or the place in which the fighting is happening.
Fortunately, 'The Sharpe Companion' has been released. This book aims to give all of the background information that any fan of the Sharpe series could possibly want.
Cleverly, the author has chosen to give historical information, together wi...more |
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The Sharpe Companion - Mark Adkin: A fantastic companion to Cornwell's novels (658 words)
by - written on 25/07/09 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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Bernard Cornwell's series of books about the Peninsular War, featuring Richard Sharpe, have proven enormously popular and have even been made into a successful television series starring Sean Bean. The books' success is, I believe, due to the marrying of stories of high adventure, with the historical facts of the various battles fought between the British, French and Spanish between 1809 and 1815. Cornwell is a master storyteller, who weaves fact and fiction together seamlessly. Sharpe is present at all the major battles of the time, Salamanca, Vitoria, and of course, Waterloo. The backdrop of these bloody battles is meshed with the fiction of ... Read the complete review
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