Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Seige of Seringapatam, 1799
By Bernard Cornwell
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.
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