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Richard Sharpe novels volume 18
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With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 9
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With Wellington outnumbered, the bankrupt army's only hope of avoiding, collapse is a hidden cache of Portuguese gold. Only Captain Richard Sharpe is capable of stealing it—and it means turning against his own men.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 14
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Colonel Leroux is killing Britain's most valuable spies, and it's up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar world of political and military intrigue, Sharpe must tangle with La Marquesa, a beguiling, extraordinarily beautiful woman whose embrace is as calculating as it is passionate. As she lease him through a maze of secrecy, cunning, and deception, Sharpe relentlessly pursues Leroux, determined to exact his revenge with the cold...
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In the summer of 1776, Washington's army in Brooklyn and New York City faced one of the largest invading forces ever assembled by the British Empire. After suffering a series of devastating defeats, Washington's vulnerable and dejected troops were forced to evacuate the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Three weeks later, however, near the Canadian border, one of his favorite and most talented generals accomplished a tactical miracle by stalling the...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 12
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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses.
The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 17
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An unfinished duel, a midnight murder, and the treachery of a beautiful prostitute lead to the imprisonment of Sharpe. Caught in a web of political intrigue for which his military experience has left him fatally unprepared, Sharpe becomes a fugitive-a man hunted by both ally and enemy alike.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 16
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While Napoleon closes in on the British, Major Richard Sharpe gets caught in a different kind of battle--one with his enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, who has taken a group of French and British women hostage at the Gateway of God, a pass in the mountains of western Spain.
9) Waterloo
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 21
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Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
10) Sails and steam in the mountains: a maritime and military history of Lake George and Lake Champlain
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Examines the archaeological finds and historical events which occurred in the Lake George and Lake Champlain region of New York, from the French and Indian War through the end of the twenty-first century.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 2
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The continuing adventures of Richard Sharpe, a 19th century soldier, as he fights to enlarge the British empire. He helps the Duke of Wellington put down the Indian Mahratta rebellion, an operation culminating in the 1803 Battle of Assaye which is described in vivid detail.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 19
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In 1814 Richard Sharpe and his small force of Rifleman face overwhelming odds after being abandoned deep in French territory.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 8
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At Talavera in July of 1809, Captain Richard Sharpe, bold, professional, and ruthless, prepares to lead his men against the armies of Napoleon into what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, their resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must battle his way through sword fights and bloody warfare to redeem the honor of his regiment by capturing the most valued prize...
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This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of...
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 3
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Richard Sharpe, newly promoted for his skill in assisting Sir Arthur Wellesley in the battle against the Mahratta, risks his honor, reputation, and fortune in his quest to thwart a treasonous scheme devised by his oldest nemesis Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 6
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In 1809, Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful soldiers of the 95th Rifles in Spain, and he must lead them to safety through the enemy infested hills.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 11
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Richard Sharpe, the former private in His Majesty's army who now commands a company of riflemen, finds himself fighting his old enemies, the French, in 1811.
18) What was D-Day?
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[2015]
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D-Day spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere.
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Richard Sharpe novels volume 7
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c2003
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1st American ed.
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Bernard Cornwell returns to the battlefields of the Iberian Peninsula where the lieutenant and his men bravely fight the French invasion into Portugal.
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2013
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1st ed.
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Examines the mid-19th-century Afghan war as a tragic result of neocolonial ambition, cultural collision and hubris, drawing on previously untapped primary sources to explore such topics as the reestablishment of a puppet-leader Shah, the conflict's brutal human toll and the similarities between the war and present-day challenges.
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