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Sharpe's Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

In de vertaling van Daan den Hengst. However, as good as Sharpe's Waterloo was, for me it was forgettable next to the storming of the Cacafuego, or Stephen's midnight landings on the French beaches. Actually, I couldn't stop laughing at Paul Bettany's performance as Prince William in Sharpe's Waterloo. For Anglophones, that means that the Res Gestae by Ammianus Marcellinus have been translated into Dutch. Well… now we know there's more Sharpe, but in 1997, Waterloo was it. 1990 was a sad year for Bernard Cornwell renowned author of historic fiction. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. Bean also played Sharpe in all those telemovies with names like Sharpe's Revenge, Sharpe's Waterloo and Sharpe's Gesticulation (I only made up one of those). It was just so wonderfully over the top and historically inaccurate (he didn't even look like him!) that it was hilarious. A year after the battle of Waterloo and dispatches from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Waterloo and another one I thought of myself. Sharpe's Waterloo A Beautiful Finale.