Sharpe's Tiger (1997)
Sharpe's Tiger is a 1997 richard sharpe (fictitious character) book written by Bernard Cornwell and Frederick Davidson.
India, 1799. Richard Sharpe is a private in His Majesty's 33rd Regiment, illiterate, quick with his fists, and marked for the lash. The British are marching on Seringapatam to break the Tippoo of Mysore and his French allies, and Sharpe is handed a task that could make him a sergeant or feed him to the Tippoo's tigers: slip into the city disguised as a deserter and reach a captured Scottish spy. Bernard Cornwell writes the prequel to his long-running series with a young Sharpe still becoming the soldier fans know. Fast, bloody, and rooted in the real siege.
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What is Sharpe's Tiger about?
India, 1799. Richard Sharpe is a private in His Majesty's 33rd Regiment, illiterate, quick with his fists, and marked for the lash. The British are marching on Seringapatam to break the Tippoo of Mysore and his French allies, and Sharpe is handed a task that could make him a sergeant or feed him to the Tippoo's tigers: slip into the city disguised as a deserter and reach a captured Scottish spy. Bernard Cornwell writes the prequel to his long-running series with a young Sharpe still becoming the soldier fans know. Fast, bloody, and rooted in the real siege.
When was Sharpe's Tiger published?
Sharpe's Tiger was published in 1997.
Who made Sharpe's Tiger?
Sharpe's Tiger was written by Bernard Cornwell and Frederick Davidson.
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Bernard Cornwell readers should start with The Last Kingdom, the television version of his Saxon novels, the same grit and battlefield detail in another century. For the disguise-and-infiltration thrill, Assassin's Creed II lets you move through a hostile historical city in plain sight, blending into crowds exactly as Sharpe must inside Seringapatam.
Step into history's armies and empires yourself
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Low-born soldiers who claw their way up in war-torn kingdoms
Richard Sharpe starts this saga as an illiterate private with nothing but grit, and these series follow the same rough climb through war and court intrigue. The Last Kingdom's Uhtred and Vikings' Ragnar claw status out of chaos, Sharpe's own TV adaptation carries the character further through the Peninsular War, and Spartacus: House of Ashur returns to Capua's blood-soaked politics.
Real history epics about ordinary men thrown into extraordinary danger
Cornwell grounds Sharpe's Tiger in the real siege of Seringapatam, and these films share that pull toward history's hardest campaigns. Master and Commander sails the Napoleonic wars, Hacksaw Ridge follows one soldier's refusal to carry a weapon into Okinawa, Oppenheimer tracks the physicist behind the bomb that ended a war, and Rise of the Conqueror returns to empire-building on horseback.
Swashbuckling history stripped down to swords, sieges and empire
Sharpe's Tiger treats its siege of Seringapatam like a swashbuckling adventure as much as history, and these comics share that mix of empire and derring-do. Asterix turns Roman conquest into comedy, 300 renders Thermopylae as myth-sized battle, Kingdom stages Joseon-era political war, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reassembles Victorian adventurers against empire-scale threats.