by Bernard Cornwell · Fontana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006173137
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«Sharpe's Eagle» is the historical and military novel by Bernard Cornwell, published by Fontana in paperback (255 pages, in English).
Richard Sharpe, promoted to captain, faces in July 1809 an inexperienced company, incompetent superiors, and an enemy from within his own ranks. At the Battle of Talavera, his courage and honour are at stake as he fights for the regiment's future and his own, amid betrayals and hand-to-hand combat.
The work is the eighth instalment of the Sharpe series and is set in the Talavera campaign of July 1809.
For readers of historical and military fiction, particularly those interested in the Napoleonic Wars and military adventure fiction.
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
