I have a Brigadier Gerard short story in an upcoming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle anthology, and the story teams Doyle’s Napoleonic hero with Nikolai Rostov from Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace. Read on for more information on the story and how to pre-order the collection.
Tag Archives: Napoleonic Wars
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
In January I rewatched the Sharpe movies made in the mid-90s, based on the Bernard Cornwell novels about the Napoleonic Wars and starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, for the first time in years. The only ones I didn’t watch are the two post-Waterloo movies made about a decade ago that are set in India;Continue reading “The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard”
War and Peace
I have finished War and Peace. The BBC audio drama, that is, not the novel. Which I have read; I read it in high school a long time ago. It was a bit flat. No, more than a bit. It was a lot flat. A decade after Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the Rostov family andContinue reading “War and Peace”