Marching with Sharpe

Marching with Sharpe PDF Author: B. J. Bluth
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Using the same re-enactment groups that provided much of the man (and woman-) power for the TV series, Marching With Sharpe reveals what it was like to fight in Wellington's Army during the Napoleonic Wars. How to fire a musket rifle, sword fighting, forming square, how to cook chickens in a cavalry breastplate... not just the military detail but all the nitty gritty of everyday life. What was it like to wear the uniforms of the period, what did you eat, what medical treatment was available and how to withstand the lash are also covered.

Marching with Sharpe

Marching with Sharpe PDF Author: B. J. Bluth
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Using the same re-enactment groups that provided much of the man (and woman-) power for the TV series, Marching With Sharpe reveals what it was like to fight in Wellington's Army during the Napoleonic Wars. How to fire a musket rifle, sword fighting, forming square, how to cook chickens in a cavalry breastplate... not just the military detail but all the nitty gritty of everyday life. What was it like to wear the uniforms of the period, what did you eat, what medical treatment was available and how to withstand the lash are also covered.

Three Horizons

Three Horizons PDF Author: Bill Sharpe
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1911193872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Book Description
A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it

Porterhouse Blue

Porterhouse Blue PDF Author: Tom Sharpe
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446474658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
______________________________ The 'endlessly funny' novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literature Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.

Sharpe’s Prey: The Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 (The Sharpe Series, Book 5)

Sharpe’s Prey: The Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807 (The Sharpe Series, Book 5) PDF Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007338708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
*SHARPE’S ASSASSIN, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to buy now*

The American Sharpe

The American Sharpe PDF Author: Gareth Glover
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473884179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Book Description
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father’s objections, as an officer in this elite regiment has caused great excitement. James Penman Gairdner was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but he was sent back to the ‘Old Country’ for his education, receiving his schooling at Harrow. After school, rather than joining his father’s merchant business he decided to become a soldier, receiving a commission in the famous 95th Rifles. He subsequently served, without a break, from the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in January 1812 until the end of the war in 1814. He then fought in the Waterloo campaign and formed part of the Army of Occupation. He was wounded on three occasions. Throughout his service he kept a journal, which he managed to maintain on almost a daily basis. This journal, along with a number of letters that he wrote to his family, have been edited by renowned historian Gareth Glover and are presented here to the public for the first time. Readers will not find dramatic stories of great battles or adventurous escapades. Instead, Gairdner, details the everyday life of one of Wellington’s soldiers; one of marches and billets, of the weather, the places and the people of the Iberian Peninsula and of Paris and Occupied France – the real nature of soldering. His diaries also highlight the very strange relationship between these newly independent Americans and the ‘Old Country’ they had so recently fought with; which even allowed for a true American boy to fight in the British Army, but not in America!

Far From You

Far From You PDF Author: Tess Sharpe
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1423187849
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Don’t miss Tess Sharpe’s new novel, 6 Times We Almost Kissed (and One Time We Did). The truth won't let her go. Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice. The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. The second time, she's seventeen, and it's no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. Mina's brother won't speak to her, her parents fear she'll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina's murderer on her own. But with every step, Sophie comes closer to revealing all: about herself, about Mina---and about the secret they shared.

Sharpe's Tiger

Sharpe's Tiger PDF Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061804738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. “The greatest writer of historical adventures today.” —Washington Post Richard Sharpe. Soldier, hero, rogue—the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles, whose green jacket he proudly wears.

Sharpe's Havoc

Sharpe's Havoc PDF Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007120125
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Book Description
During the 1809 French invasion of Northern Portugal, Sharpe and his riflemen are ordered to rescue a British woman and her daughter.

Sharpe's Eagle

Sharpe's Eagle PDF Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451212573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
The first book in Bernard Cornwell's epic Sharpe series, which completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history. 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. Sharpe has earned his captaincy, but there are others, such as the foppish Lieutenant Gibbons and his uncle, Colonel Henry Simmerson, who have bought their commissions despite their incompetence. 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 in the French Army—a golden Imperial Eagle, the standard touched by the hand of Napoleon himself.

Sharpe's Battle

Sharpe's Battle PDF Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Sharpe Series
ISBN: 9780007452958
Category : Fuentes de Oñoro, Battle of, Fuentes de Oñoro, Spain, 1811
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Set in 1811, during some of the worst fighting of the Napoleonic Wars, Richard Sharpe is given responsibility of an Irish battalion of ceremonial troops who are poorly equipped and untrained for battle.