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Sharpe's tiger : Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 / Bernard Cornwell.

Cornwell, Bernard. (Author).

Summary:

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops. The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners -- or, worse -- his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060932309
  • ISBN: 9780060932305
  • ISBN: 0613370430
  • ISBN: 9780613370431
  • ISBN: 9780007425792
  • ISBN: 0061012696
  • Physical Description: 385 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 1st HarperPerennial ed.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 1999.

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Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.4 21 45711.
Subject: Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Sieges > Fiction.
Great Britain > History, Military > 18th century > Fiction.
Śrīraṅgapaṭṭaṇa (India) > History > Siege, 1799 > Fiction.
India > History > Mysore Wars, 1766-1799 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
War fiction.

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Bath Community Library FIC (Text) 38344100902053 Adult Fiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library FIC Cornwell (Text) 540191011096055 Adult Fiction Available -
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