Sharpe's Fortress

The Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803

De: Bernard Cornwell

Narrado por: Rupert Farley

Duración: 13 h y 24 m

Resumen del Editor

"The greatest writer of historical adventures today."

—Washington Post

Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done—perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious military career of British Army officer Richard Sharpe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In Sharpe's Fortress, Ensign Sharpe's adventures in India reach a grand finale at the Siege of Gawilghur during the Maharatta War in December 1803, as Cornwell's hero uncovers a foul treason and seeks a righteous revenge. Perhaps the San Francisco Chronicle said it best: "If only all history lessons could be as vibrant."

©1998 Bernard Cornwell (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Fantastic author with an equally fantastic narrator

Bernard Cornwall is a gem. He’s a master at building tension and suspense before and during battles. There’s enough history and military detail mixed in that I feel like I’m learning a bit along with being very entertained.
I’m excited to continue the series with this excellent new narration.
I enjoyed the narrator from the older audiobooks but the new recordings are much better quality and just as talented.

One helluva ride!

Bernard Cornwall certainly knows how to tell a story and how to make Richard Sharpe a true underdog that keeps the listener cheering all the while. I also appreciated learning how the Redcoats fought in India in 1805.

Excellent!

The performance of this and all of the other sharpe novels has been exemplary. I always mean to listen whilst doing something else, but find myself neglecting whatever the something else is because I am so captivated by the storytelling and rich narration.

As good as the first two

Another wonderful chronicle in the career of Richard Sharpe. This series is among my favorites in more than 600 books.

Great new Performer

Love this performer and the accent he brings to Sharpe. I was disappointed that this was not an audiobook a few years ago. But glad to see it’s been added to the audio collection.

Another great book

Very exciting book that is read by the best voice actor I have ever heard.

As good as it gets in this genre

In this historical fiction space, this is it. Can’t put it down. Don’t want the series to end. ‘Nough said!

Well read, great story

Narration was well done. Story carries reader deeper into the life of Sharpe. Deeper character development along with graphic battles

Wait what

In book three his French heiress died in child both. But in this book 4 , they are saying she took his jewels and sail to America. In book three he had spent the money on lawyers. It got confusing.

I own both versions and enjoy them both bloody good times

the Richard Sharpe series is oldie but goodie. these days with soo much useless whining and DEI lies told about everything I like to kick back and just listen to regular heros do their thing. Bernard Cromwell does a good job of bringing the semi mideval world of the 1800+ year era to life. this is a time when if you had an enemy you could just kill him if you were careful. but even killing the enemy has its costs.
also even though Richard Sharpe is on the winning side not everyone agrees with him so the twist here is our main character spends almost as much time proving himself or fighting his own side who are arrogant pompus Scottish or English gentlemen or the down in the dumps corrupt Sergeants and Privates looking for a quick buck and lots of booze. there is nothing approaching a happy ending is just a king of the hill style brawl one problem after another for Richard Sharpe and he learns as he goes both how to be an Officer in his own way and that he does need friends and somewhat to share the loot the women, the glory in a very messy and NOT perfect world.

Ultimately the lesson is there is one is up to you the reader to decide. even at the last battle with Colonel Dodd, Sharpe is forced to accept help... which shoes a little bit bout real life too. unlike more modern books which try preaching virtue the Richard Sharpe books present all of the ugly and all of the fighters ways to fix it. morality and everything to do with modern wokeness gets to take a back seat to just how brutal the setting is and even if you had a 2010 era person there in the heros shoes big deal nobody would care what you had to say, same as they didn't care how good a job Richard Sharpe does in every assignment. they only care about rules and how everything looks and how Sharpe does not come from gentle society. no amount of wokeness or pretend buying better clothes fixes that.. only experience and mabey going forward and selectively getting and holding onto better friends.

Listen for a brawl and a good time without any modern BS strings attached which most modern authors seem to feel obligated to tack on to people please and cow tow.