Sharpe Books in Order

After Talavera, Sharpe is ordered to seize an enemy battle standard—an eagle that could restore a disgraced regiment’s honor. Outnumbered and mistrusted, he fights for his reputation as much as for victory.

Short of pay and supplies, Sharpe is sent on a desperate hunt for a cache of Spanish gold. Guerrillas, betrayal, and brutal terrain turn the mission into a test of whether he can keep his men alive and loyal.

Assigned to the bloody assault on Badajoz, Sharpe leads his men into chaos where discipline breaks and vengeance takes over. An old enemy returns, and Sharpe must survive both the fortress and the madness inside it.

On the eve of Salamanca, Sharpe is pulled into a dangerous web of spies and aristocrats. When battle erupts, his skill and nerve may not be enough to save him from betrayal and army politics.

Sharpe is sent into the border mountains to crush a brutal band of deserters who terrorize both sides. With old nemesis Obadiah Hakeswill in the mix, the mission becomes as personal as it is dangerous.

As Wellington’s campaign races toward victory, Sharpe is caught between espionage, politics, and Pierre Ducos’s attempts to end him. Rescues, shifting loyalties, and a looming battle force him to gamble everything he’s earned.

Back in England, Sharpe is ordered to recruit men for the South Essex and discovers the home front has its own predators. An enemy with bureaucratic power tries to destroy him without firing a shot.

A covert raid on a French coastal fort goes catastrophically wrong, leaving Sharpe stranded and hunted. With only an unlikely ally beside him, he must outthink Pierre Ducos to get off the coast alive.

At the start of the Peninsular War, Sharpe joins an elite rifle unit during the retreat to Corunna. Leading hard-bitten men behind enemy lines, he learns that courage isn’t enough when commanders are incompetent.

As the war ends, Sharpe chases Pierre Ducos into a Europe where Napoleon’s fall creates new opportunities for thieves. A missing treasure and unfinished grudges drag him into a dangerous peacetime pursuit.

In June 1815, Sharpe marches into the Waterloo campaign and faces the fight that will decide Europe’s future. Amid chaos and smoke, he struggles to keep his men alive long enough to settle a score that won’t wait.

Retired at last, Sharpe is pulled into a journey to Chile to find a vanished friend in a colony on the edge of revolt. Along the way he crosses paths with Napoleon and a legendary seafaring commander, and trouble follows.

In peacetime Normandy, Sharpe wants quiet days with Lucille—until old enemies arrive demanding gold they believe he stole. With his home threatened and no army to hide behind, he must outwit the raiders on familiar ground.

At Fuentes de Oñoro, Sharpe finds the war reduced to street fighting and close-quarters slaughter. With rivals plotting and the French pressing hard, he has to hold his unit together in a battle that turns savage.

In 1799 India, private Richard Sharpe fights in a brutal siege while dodging a vicious sergeant who wants him dead. Survival depends on nerve, luck, and learning how to bend army rules without snapping.

Still in India, Sharpe serves alongside Arthur Wellesley at a savage battle where courage and discipline are tested to breaking point. A dangerous rival officer and army politics threaten to ruin him just as he gets his chance to rise.

Newly commissioned, Sharpe takes part in the assault on a hill fortress in India where ladders are too short and men are panicking. He has to improvise under fire to prove he belongs among officers.

Recovering from wounds, Sharpe is given what should be easy duty guarding a remote fort and a fussy official. Then a French raid turns the assignment into a siege, and he must fight with whatever he can salvage.

On the voyage home from India, Sharpe is caught up with the fleet heading toward Trafalgar. Trapped aboard a warship, he faces naval combat, spies, and the chaos of a battle that will reshape Europe.

In Copenhagen, Sharpe is drawn into a ruthless campaign meant to keep Denmark’s fleet out of Napoleon’s hands. Bombardment turns civilians into targets, and Sharpe must decide how far he’ll go to follow orders and survive.

Portugal, 1809: the French invade, and Sharpe marches with the British counterattack. Amid sabotage and shifting allies, he’s tasked with a mission that could expose a conspiracy—or leave him facing a firing squad.

In 1810 the French push into Portugal, and Sharpe faces the grinding retreat behind the Lines of Torres Vedras. With his men hungry and battered, he gambles on a plan that could save them—or trap them.

Sent south into winter fighting, Sharpe finds himself in a risky operation that explodes into a hard-won battle on Spain’s coast. With allies unreliable and enemies everywhere, he has to choose between orders and opportunity.

After Waterloo, Sharpe is sent into occupied Paris to track a murderous plot and recover a missing spy. Street fights replace set-piece battles, and he learns that victory doesn’t end danger—it just changes its shape.

Spain, 1812: Sharpe is sent on a reconnaissance mission that turns into an assault on a key French position guarding a vital bridge. With time running out and plans collapsing, he has to lead from the front to make it work.

Winter 1813 in France is brutal, and Sharpe’s new problem is an eager naval officer with sealed orders and no sense of self-preservation. Sharpe’s task is simple to say and hard to do: keep the man alive.