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We meet sergeant richard sharpe bean in the first installment of the series of tv movies, sharpes rifles, which is actually the sixth novel in cornwells books. He is an author of historical novels and a illegitimate child of war. However, readers can have difficulty putting the many volumes into chronological order, especially as the author has written. Sharpes eagle, published in 1981, is 8th in the series.
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