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A review by tome15
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
5.0
Cornwell, Bernard. Sharpe’s Eagle. 1981. Sharpe No. 8. Signet, 2004.
This book details one of the major events in rifleman Richard Sharpe’s career. Set in the Talavera campaign of 1809, during Sir Arthur Wellesley’s invasion of Spain, we see Sharpe humiliated when his regimental colors are lost by an incompetent officer who has replaced him because he has higher family connections than the orphaned slum-boy Richard Sharpe. So, Sharpe does what the title makes you expect, he gets even by capturing the French equivalent, an eagle on a pole. As always, Cornwell writes good action scenes, and is honest in an appendix about the liberties he has taken with history.
This book details one of the major events in rifleman Richard Sharpe’s career. Set in the Talavera campaign of 1809, during Sir Arthur Wellesley’s invasion of Spain, we see Sharpe humiliated when his regimental colors are lost by an incompetent officer who has replaced him because he has higher family connections than the orphaned slum-boy Richard Sharpe. So, Sharpe does what the title makes you expect, he gets even by capturing the French equivalent, an eagle on a pole. As always, Cornwell writes good action scenes, and is honest in an appendix about the liberties he has taken with history.