Sharpe 3-Book Collection 5: Sharpe’s Company, Sharpe’s Sword, Sharpe’s Enemy

Sharpe 3-Book Collection 5: Sharpe’s Company, Sharpe’s Sword, Sharpe’s Enemy
Bernard Cornwell

Three classic Richard Sharpe adventuresRichard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812It is a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it is the worst he can remember. He has lost command to a man who could buy the promotion Sharpe covets. His oldest enemy, the ruthless and indestructible Hakeswill, joins the regiment and he is a man with a mission to ruin Sharpe.Richard Sharpe and the Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man – the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe’s mission is to safeguard El Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory.Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe’s bitter enemy.

Bernard Cornwell Collected Edition: Sharpe’s Company, Sharpe’s Sword and Sharpe’s Enemy

BERNARD CORNWELL

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2014

Copyright © Rifleman Productions Ltd 1983

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Source ISBN: 9780007334551, 9780007346820, 9780007346790

Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2014 ISBN: 9780007454709

Version: 2017-05-08

Table of Contents

Cover (#u41da62da-0fc7-51b3-a4e4-c81c8d7e58e9)

Title Page (#uc1928ac0-f009-5738-a8e5-455004804c4f)

Copyright (#ueea786ee-57a3-572a-8d2c-6ee3a28396b6)

Sharpe’s Company (#u73d92e27-6312-5121-b49f-97a5dc9d36ff)

Sharpe’s Sword (#litres_trial_promo)

Sharpe’s Enemy (#litres_trial_promo)

Sharpe’s Story (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Bernard Cornwell (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

SHARPE’S

COMPANY

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz,

January to April 1812

BERNARD CORNWELL

Sharpe’s Company is for the Harper family, Charlie and Marie, Patrick, Donna and Terry, with affection and gratitude

‘Brilliant! Sharpe is a great creation’

Daily Mirror

‘Now thou art come unto a feast of death’

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HENRY VI, PART I, ACT 4, SCENE 5.

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u885eb170-3675-55d7-89f4-75f68916c057)

Dedication (#u016aa2da-8d5f-58a2-b12b-d1a75e67dc83)

Epigraph (#u490c0994-5bed-545c-bf14-8722a8ab833e)

Map (#u005ca0ae-9a40-5733-8608-cc290fe0b65c)

Part One: January 1812 (#u46c98557-2517-518d-946a-6d5ff3df6488)

Chapter One (#uc0f4dfc9-0702-58f4-addb-186d20a93a68)

Chapter Two (#ud7742884-b71b-59e6-96b4-afb4966086f5)

Chapter Three (#u43332069-1283-5f1e-8a9a-78ff25baeb0e)

Chapter Four (#u73aaa2e9-6a80-5bea-bcae-f778c6a26ce5)