How long does it take to read Sharpe's Battle?
Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811
Sharpe's Battle by Bernard Cornwell takes about 6 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 12 of Richard Sharpe
Previous: Sharpe's Fury Next: Sharpe's Company
About 6 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 379 pages, about 104,225 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company back to the spring of 1811 and one of the most bitter battles of the Peninsular War, a battle on which all British hopes of victory in Spain will depend. Sharpe is given responsibility to lead an Irish battalion of the king of Spain's household guard, ceremonial troops untrained and unequipped for battle. While quartered in the crumbling fort of San Isidro, they are attacked by murderous Brigadier General Guy Luop's elite French brigade. Sharpe has witnessed General Loup's despicable was crimes before; to put an end to them, and to settle another more personal score, Sharpe must lead his company into the blood-gutted streets of Fuentes de Onoro, where thousands of French troops have amassed, in a battle to the death.
Subjects: Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character), Military History, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Spanischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg
