Sharpe’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805: Book 4 (The Sharpe Series)

by Bernard Cornwell (Author)

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  2006

  $4.23

  The seventeenth Sharpe novel sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly formed Green Jackets. Soldier, hero, rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears. In this adventure, Sharpe is on his way home from India. He is sailing with the Royal Navy, who are hunting a formidable French warship, the 'Revenant,, carrying a secret treaty that may prove lethal to the British. The 'Revenant, makes it to the safety of the French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz, and it seems Sharpe,s enemies have found safety. Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe,s revenge will come in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.28

  The seventeenth Sharpe novel sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly formed Green jackets. Sharpe, though a little more comfortable with his new officer rank, is sure that this new unit is of lower status, and that he has failed. His ship home is shipwrecked: he is captured by pirates but fighting free with a few companions, finds himself on a British Navy ship heading to join Nelson's fleet. And there, in October 1805, he finds himself involved in the great sea battle, and discovers new skills in fighting on sea.

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.23

  The seventeenth Sharpe novel sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly formed Green Jackets in Britain. His voyage home should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends. But an unlikey ally secures his escape into a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. That hunt turns into a pursuit as the French ship races home, and when she encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets of Cadiz, it seems Sharpe's enemies are safe. But over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will come when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.