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Title: Sharpe's Trafalgar : Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0-06-109862-0 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sharpe's Trafalgar
Comment: Bernard Cornwell and his Richard Sharpe series are some of the most exciting historical fiction around. There are quite a few people reviewing this book and suggesting works Patrick O'Brien, especially if interested in nautical fiction. I would also like to include anything by James L. Nelson. He writes nautical fiction with battle scenes and stories that suck you in at the same level of the Sharpe books.
Rating: 3
Summary: simplistic plot but good character interactions
Comment: This book centers around how Richard Sharpe left India and eventually found himself in the middle of the Battle of Trafalgar, the most defining naval battle during the Napoleonic Wars. The book is predictable though, the side plot of Sharpe and a prominent female character is filler to an otherwise muindane journey. The author though describes a good picture of how its like to be on a ship two hundred years ago. He describes the parts of a ship pretty well and the sounds and smells of the ship pretty well. The interactions between the characters in the book were pretty predictable, you just knew that the characters would now do anything surprising, the heroes would behave heroic, the aristocrats would behave like snobs, and the cicophants would behave cowardly. Despite it all, the book was pretty enjoyable and would probably be good for younger readers more than older readers. The book reminds me of a hollywood movie that uses a recycled plot with high profile actors. But despite all of the mediocre shortcomings of this particular book, I got out of it a good impression of a slice of life in the 19th century where all the evolution of today's world came.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sharpe the Marine.
Comment: Bernard Cornwell is a historian first and storywriter second, at both he is superb. Trafalgar is possibly the most famous naval battle in British history and it just so happens to fit in with the Sharpe timeline. Naturally as a historian Cornwell would want to put Sharpe in this position and am glad he did. I found this book to amazingly interesting. The account of the naval battle is both detailed and gripping. He recounts the events with such accuracy its amazing how he made it seem so interesting and not just a report from a history book.
The book has all the ingredients that make the Sharpe series so great, you just have to read it to love it.
I give this book 4 stars, and it's well deserved.
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Title: Sharpe's Fortress : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0061098639 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sharpe's Triumph : Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0060951974 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sharpe's Prey : Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Denmark, 1807 by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0060084537 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0060932309 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell ISBN: 0140294295 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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