SHARPE’S
WATERLOO
Richard Sharpe and the Waterloo Campaign, 15 June to 18 June 1815
BERNARD CORNWELL
This novel is a work of fiction. The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1990
Copyright © Rifleman Productions 1990
Foreword © Bernard Cornwell 2015
Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780007452903
Ebook Edition © JULY 2009 ISBN: 9780007338764
Version: 2017-04-25
Sharpe’s Waterloo is for Judy, with all my love
Contents
The First Day: Thursday, 15 June 1815
The Second Day: Friday, 16 June 1815
The Third Day: Saturday, 17 June 1815
The Fourth Day: Sunday, 18 June 1815
The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)
The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)
‘A brilliantly imaginative novel which sweeps you along at breakneck speed’
Mary Wesley
FOREWORD
I wrote Sharpe’s Waterloo in 1990 and found it a most frustrating book. I had devised