CORNWELL, BERNARD — Sharpe's Trafalgar

HarperCollins 2001 The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October, 1805 293 p., on end papers drawings of the 74 guns ship HARDCOVER: (Orig. cl. Dust jacket. AS NEW) Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done-perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Chronicling Sharpe's involvement in the famous Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Sharpe's Trafalgar finds the young ensign captive on a French warship and in gravest peril on the eve of the one of the most spectacular naval confrontations in history. In 1805, fresh from his adventures in India, British soldier Richard Sharpe is faced with a new enemy when the ship carrying him back to England is attacked by a French warship and he discovers that the French vessel is carrying a treaty that ignites hostilities against the British in India.