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Summary: "All the perfect ingredients for an action-packed novel
Review: "All the perfect ingredients for an action-packed and page turning read" as THE TIMES said. This book is for people who like adventures packed with action in the 19th century. This novel is about the time where the battle field was on the sea. Lieutenant Richard Prey an Englishman, is given a mission to stopp war. His adventure is exciting as the plot reaches its climax; Prey has to, protect a women he loves, hunt a traitor and stay alive.
This is the first novel i have read if Bernanrd Cornwell. I enjoed reading it becauseit gave me a better view of a Lieutenant on a ship during war. I hope to continue readind the novels of the Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell as time allowes.
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Summary: "All the perfect ingredients for an action-packed novel
Review: "All the perfect ingredients for an action-packed and page turning read" as THE TIMES said. This book is for people who like adventures packed with action in the 19th century. This novel is about the time where the battle field was on the sea. Lieutenant Richard Prey an Englishman, is given a mission to stopp war. His adventure is exciting as the plot reaches its climax; Prey has to, protect a women he loves, hunt a traitor and stay alive.
This is the first novel i have read if Bernanrd Cornwell. I enjoed reading it becauseit gave me a better view of a Lieutenant on a ship during war. I hope to continue readind the novels of the Sharpe series written by Bernard Cornwell as time allowes.
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Summary: This Series Used to Be So Much Better
Review: Not that this isn't good -- a Richard Sharpe story combines, adventure, history, and social commentary in a most enjoyable way. Cornwell is a natural story-teller, and unlike many modern novelists, he doesn't seem intent on making each book longer than the one before.In this one, Sharpe is on a spying mission in Denmark. There are some interesting parts to it -- Sharpe's escape up a chimney is riveting. But the sense of danger just isn't there. The villians aren't menacing; just banal. The consequences seem minor. There are many places where Sharpe could just walk away from the situation. These "early Sharpe" books make you appreciate how important the character of Patrikc Harper is to the series.
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Summary: This Series Used to Be So Much Better
Review: Not that this isn't good -- a Richard Sharpe story combines, adventure, history, and social commentary in a most enjoyable way. Cornwell is a natural story-teller, and unlike many modern novelists, he doesn't seem intent on making each book longer than the one before. In this one, Sharpe is on a spying mission in Denmark. There are some interesting parts to it -- Sharpe's escape up a chimney is riveting. But the sense of danger just isn't there. The villians aren't menacing; just banal. The consequences seem minor. There are many places where Sharpe could just walk away from the situation. These "early Sharpe" books make you appreciate how important the character of Patrikc Harper is to the series.
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Summary: another great romp
Review: Stupendous as always, with plenty of depth to Sharpe as we see him again after his great love affair has come to a tragic end. The details about the decmination of Copenhagen are first rate. Excellent suspense and another nice transition from the India novels to the Peninsular ones.
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Summary: another great romp
Review: Stupendous as always, with plenty of depth to Sharpe as we see him again after his great love affair has come to a tragic end. The details about the decmination of Copenhagen are first rate. Excellent suspense and another nice transition from the India novels to the Peninsular ones.
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Summary: A history lesson made fun
Review: This was my introduction to the Sharpe series. Before buying the books I was big fan of the Sharpe movies on TV, I used to love watching them and am glad to say upon finding the series of books my opinion of Sharpe has raised many times over. This book is set the peninsular wars. Sharpe has not yet met Harper (there is a small section about harpers experiences though) and he is not enjoying his life as a commissioned officer in his majesty's army. This book gives Sharpe just the kind of adventure he needs to get his morale up for the books that follow. This book isn't my favourite of the whole Sharpe series but it is the most sentimental to me, Bernard Cornwell is a great author/historian. You don't just get a great story but you get an in-depth history lesson also. Though Sharpe is a fictional character the scenarios in which he is placed are not, so you get a feel for what soldiers and people alike lived through and experienced. Of all the Sharpe books this is up there with the best, I give this book a well deserved 4 stars (it'd be five but they are reserved for Sharpe's Tiger).
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Summary: A history lesson made fun
Review: This was my introduction to the Sharpe series. Before buying the books I was big fan of the Sharpe movies on TV, I used to love watching them and am glad to say upon finding the series of books my opinion of Sharpe has raised many times over. This book is set the peninsular wars. Sharpe has not yet met Harper (there is a small section about harpers experiences though) and he is not enjoying his life as a commissioned officer in his majesty's army. This book gives Sharpe just the kind of adventure he needs to get his morale up for the books that follow. This book isn't my favourite of the whole Sharpe series but it is the most sentimental to me, Bernard Cornwell is a great author/historian. You don't just get a great story but you get an in-depth history lesson also. Though Sharpe is a fictional character the scenarios in which he is placed are not, so you get a feel for what soldiers and people alike lived through and experienced. Of all the Sharpe books this is up there with the best, I give this book a well deserved 4 stars (it'd be five but they are reserved for Sharpe's Tiger).
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