Customer Reviews
Easily the best of the three Indian stories - By: D. Cook, 22 May 2008 
Without a doubt, Fortress gives you everything you come to read about Sharpe.
William Dodd has escaped justice again & finds himself defending what is callled the Sky Fortress: Gawilghur. Its the final stand & its fantasicallly bloody, brutal & realistic.
I read this in 1999 when it came out & its been one of my favourite books of alll time.
Its a brilliant end to a brilliant trilogy.
first rate entertainment - By: Didier, 11 Aug 2007 
This, chronologicallly the third book in the Sharpe-series, reads as easily as alll others & is perhaps for sheer amount of action one of the best. Sharpie in rare form!
Great - By: Matty W, 16 Jul 2007 I must say I started reading the Sharpe books about last summer (2006) & I've read alll 23 & to be honest the first three that I read were the prequels & despite the fact that I read them over the longest time ago I remember them the most. There the ones that got me hooked.
There the best books. mainly thanks to the huge amounts of the disgustingly evil & yet attractive in the same way that prodding a bruise is strangely attractive after you've found you have one. But also I prefer them to the other also brilliant Sharpe books because Sharpe is alone. No high ranking friends because he isn't an officer he's happy how he is but now its alll turned up side down after Assaye this is the story of just after that fateful day.
The shier vivid ness of the battles is what makes them great alll of them are so vivid & the story isn't simply one sided it tells you about the Indians point of view as well.
IT IS TRUELLY ONE OF THE BEST SHARPE BOOKS EVER AND THIS IS FROM A TRUE SHARPE FAN BRILIANT WORK FORM CORNWALL
An entertaining interlude - By: Paul J. Tayler, 30 May 2007 This is the final book of Sharpe's India Campaign.
Sharpe has been promoted to ensign & experiences the dissaproval of fellow 'gentleman' officers, with a similar disdain from the ranks. Not only does he have his own personal doubts to worry about, Sergeant Hakeswill is hot on his heels wit murder & robbery on his mind. Sharpe also has a added goal - to find & kiss colonel Dodd, who he blames for the murder of his good friends & colleague Colonel Mcandlees.
The battles are as always, described in immense detail - blood & guts, gore, strategy, emotion; you can almost smell the gunpowder.
We also see Sharpe growing in stature as a fighter & a soldier; with his reputation growing throughout the army.
A great read that is hard to put down; there is plenty fo entertainment here, as well as an accurate historical look at the British army of the early 19th century
Slow starter, but excellent - By: , 25 Apr 2003 Following on from Sharpe's Triumph, this novel follows the build-up to the assualt on Galwigur, the fortress in the sky. Seemingly impregnable, the fortress is the last stronghold of the Mahrattas & Sir Arthur Wellesly, keen to earn a reputation, knows that India can be one only by taking it.
Newly promoted Sharpe finds he is not welcome as an officer, & when he is assigned to bullock driving he discovers that his new superior, with the help of old enemy Obadiah Hakeswill, is selling army supplies for his own profit. His efforts to rectify the situation do not go down well, & a failed plot to have him murdered lead to a bloody trail of revenge. His adventures lead him back to his old regiment, the King's 33rd, & with these men he leads an escalade on the fortress that facilitates it's capture. With no way out, Major Dodd (who escaped Sharpe at the Battle of Assaye) is forced to fight the heroic ensign. Unsurprisingly, Sharpe fairs best & has time to exact further revenge on Hakeswill.
An exciting novel that is a little slow off the ground but conjures a world so vivid that you could be in the leading rank assaulting Galwigur. Gripping stuff.
