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1) Takedown
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Pub. Date
2017
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When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out. When the man returns to the UK it looks like the threat will be a lot closer to home. Charlotte puts her best man on the case - hitman Lex Harper. It's up to Lex to assemble a crack team and get to...
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The Solarian League's navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of human civilisation, been the ideal to which humanity aspires in its diaspora across the galaxy. But the bureaucrats known as the 'Mandarins', who rule today's League, are not the men and women who founded it so long ago. They are corrupt, venal,...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
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It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the inexperienced and incompetent William, Prince of Orange, who has been given command of a large proportion of the Allied force. When the Battle of Waterloo commences, Sharpe takes matters into his own hands, turning certain defeat into magnificent triumph.
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Thorpe, Isis
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Post-war Gloucestershire: Yanto Gates, invalided out of the Army towards the end of the war, enjoys civilian life in the small village of Purton East, but he misses the thrill and risk of combat. He's had to read just to a sedate life of dock work, fishing, and "going steady" - but things don't stay that way for long, especially not when an old flame of his returns to a nearby town. There are dark secrets and old feuds at play in this sleepiest of...
5) Spoils
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Thorpe, Charnwood
Pub. Date
2018
Description
It is the spring of 2003, and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the U.S. army two years earlier, is primed for war. But for Abu al-Hool, a jihadist since the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, war is wearing thin. Two...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Description
It is 1811 and the war seems lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British Army are in Portugal, waiting for the war to begin again. Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana.
8) Darkest hour
Author
Publisher
Magna
Pub. Date
2010
Description
May 1940. Sergeant Jack Tanner has been posted to a training company on the south-east coast of England, where all is not well. The mysterious death of two Polish refugees leads Tanner to believe there has been foul play. When he and his corporal are nearly killed, Tanner finds his suspicions directed at an old comrade from his past.
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Publisher
BOTH Press
Pub. Date
2022
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It is the summer of 1812 and Richard Sharpe, newly recovered from the wound he received in the fighting at Salamanca, is given an easy duty; to guard a Commissary Officer posted to an obscure Spanish fort where there are some captured French muskets to repair. But unknown to the British, the French are planning a lightning raid across the River Tormes, and they reckon the obscure Spanish fort, which guards an ancient bridge across the river, will...
11) Sharpe's command
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Series
Sharpe volume 23
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Spain, 1812. Richard Sharpe, the most brilliant - but the most wayward - soldier in the British army, finds himself faced with an impossible task. Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost. And only Sharpe - with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on - stands in their way.
12) The absolutist
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2012
Description
September, 1919. 20-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor.
13) Devastation road
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Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Spring, 1945: A man wakes in a field in a country he does not know. His name is Owen. Injured and confused, he gets to his feet and starts to walk. A war he has only a vague memory of joining is in its dying days, and as he tries to get back to England he becomes caught up in the flood of refugees pouring through Europe. Among them is a teenage boy, Janek, and together they form an unlikely alliance on their way across battle-worn Germany. When they...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon. So when, the dust still settling after the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington needs a favour, he turns to Sharpe. For Wellington knows that the end of one war is only the beginning of another....
15) The Odin mission
Author
Publisher
Magna
Pub. Date
2009
Description
April 1940. In the valleys of Norway, the British troops are being forced into retreat in this, their first battle with the Germans in World War II. Sergeant Jack Tanner and his patrol of Yorkshire Rangers find themselves being drawn into a desperate mission.
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Spain, 1812. Richard Sharpe, the most brilliant - but the most wayward - soldier in the British army, finds himself faced with an impossible task. Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost. And only Sharpe - with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on - stands in their way.
17) Sharpe's gold
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Publisher
HarperCollinsAudio
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In hostile country, surrounded by enemies, Richard Sharpe faces the most desperate challenge of his military career - for between his men and the safety of Wellington's lines lies the fortress city of Almeida, now besieged by Napoleon's army.
19) Sharpe's triumph
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsAudio
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The year is 1803, and young Sergeant Richard Sharpe is in India, where, following his success in Sharpe's Tiger, he is on the trail of a renegade East India Company Officer.
20) Sharpe's sword
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsAudio
Pub. Date
2008
Description
This time, Sharpe's enemy is the ruthless, sadistic Colonel Leroux. Sharpe's mission is to safeguard El Mirador, the spy whose network of agents is vital to the British victory. Sharpe must enter a new world of political and military intrigue.