Sharpe's Eagle: The Talavera Campaign by Bernard Cornwell - Historical Fiction - Paperback

Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780007425891. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers. Series: The Sharpe Series, Book 8. Overview. Sharpe's Eagle plunges readers into the brutal heat of the Peninsular War, following Richard Sharpe as he's ordered to accompany an inexperienced regiment at the Battle of Talavera. When the regiment's colours are lost in disgrace, Sharpe sets out on a near-suicidal mission to capture a French Imperial Eagle and restore his men's honour. Bernard Cornwell's meticulous research and relentless pacing make this one of the most celebrated instalments in the long-running Sharpe series, a must-read for fans of gritty historical military fiction.. About the Book. Set in Portugal and Spain in 1809, Sharpe's Eagle finds Sergeant Richard Sharpe attached to a newly arrived, untested regiment commanded by an incompetent colonel. As the army advances towards the French at Talavera, tensions rise both on the battlefield and within the ranks, with Sharpe's hard-won promotion to captain only deepening the rivalry between him and his superiors. When the regiment's colours are humiliatingly lost in a disastrous skirmish, Sharpe is handed one chance at redemption: seize an enemy Eagle standard, a feat no British soldier has yet achieved. Cornwell weaves political intrigue, class conflict, and visceral combat into a single propulsive narrative, capturing the chaos of Napoleonic warfare with cannon smoke, cavalry charges, and desperate infantry squares. Sharpe's...