A little while ago I read another of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe novels as I gradually work my way through the series. Sharpe’s Battle is one of the later Sharpe novels to be written but it fits into the series at a stage when the British army faces being trapped and defeated by the French at the Portuguese-Spanish border.
The story is somewhat different from most of the series because in this one Sharpe doesn’t get involved with the girl of the story (whoever she might be). But he does make a particularly vicious enemy and have to show heroism in battle to save his position in the army so there is plenty going on and if you like Sharpe and Cornwell than Sharpe’s Battle will hit the spot.
Tim O'Hare 