Description: Public television's Masterpiece Theatre has been featuring performances of Bernard Cornwell's character Richard Sharpe and his fictional exploits during the Napoleonic Wars. This book is the non-fiction memoir of the real-life "Sharpe" and the wellspring from which the entire series of famous novels and films has sprung.

Readers unfamiliar with firsthand British memoirs from this period may well be struck by the high humor and dry wit that sprinkles the pages, in between, of course, ghastly battles, brutal floggings and misadventures of every sort with officers and civilians. Kincaid's Rifle Brigade was the first unit in, and the last one out, of every major engagement with the French fought by Wellington through Waterloo.

This is the most sought-after memoir by one of Wellington's men, heretofore a prized antiquarian item, faithfully reproduced as a quality facsimile of 1830's original edition.

This is the real-life book that underlies the entire "Sharpe" phenomenon

An engaging memoir for all readers

Humor and literary skill enhance Kincaid's narrative of daring at some of the most famous battles in history

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