![]() ![]() The tales of young, and later aging, Sharpe continue through twenty-one volumes of novelistic invention through the historical period of the Napoleanic Wars. And I still garner, these many years later, deepest pleasure from having ignited a similar passion in young Alex, our youthful offspring. ![]() ![]() Well I remember the young private soldier Richard Sharpe slogging his way across the cold wet dark threatening landscape of Spain in retreat from the conquering hordes of Napolean Bonaparte and how young Sharpe, bold in his anger, triumphed in the first of oh-so-many volumes of the now famous Cornwellian prose. I am old now, and look back on many years, long years, of happy perusing of the tomes written by the venerable Bernard Cornwell. ![]()
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