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Title: Great swash-buckling and some interesting history
Review: Cornwell's "Richard Sharpe" series is a bunch of grand adventure tales, and a valuable source of history, especially of the Peninsular War against Napoleon. They do get a little repetitive in places, since the author can't tell if you have read any others of the series. Hence he has in every book to explain that the Baker rifle is slower to load than a musket, but more accurate; and he always has to belabor the point of the British army having officers of very mixed competence, due to their having bought their commissions instead of earning them. Perhaps the custom prevailed even later, since, in World War I it is said the German General Staff referred to the British soldiers as "lions, led by donkeys."
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