Books like Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell

Captain Jack Aubrey and ship surgeon Stephen Maturin begin their storied partnership on a Royal Navy man‑of‑war during the Napoleonic Wars, offering an intimate look at life aboard ship.

A war novel that follows Union private Henry Fleming as he confronts fear and shame after fleeing battle, seeking a symbolic "red badge of courage" and ultimately taking on the role of standard-bearer.

Richard Sharpe, a seasoned British officer, leads his men with ruthless professionalism while navigating the challenges of the Peninsular War, culminating in the bloody Battle of Talavera.

Adventure‑thriller set in World War II Aegean, where Allied operatives plot to destroy two vital German guns on a remote island.

In Bernard Cornwell’s historical saga, former soldier Richard Sharpe confronts treason and siege at the sky‑high fortress of Gawilghur during the Maratha War, risking honor, reputation and fortune.

Richard Sharpe, an officer judged too low for his rank, faces mutinous soldiers and enemy cavalry while leading elite riflemen and local partisans in daring operations during the Peninsular War against Napoleon.

Ensign Richard Sharpe finds himself amid the famed Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, as a thrilling naval adventure set during the Napoleonic Wars.

Richard Sharpe faces betrayal and a deadly trap by corrupt Portuguese brothers while the British fight Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal in 1810.

Set in 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars, "Sharpe's Fury" follows Captain Richard Sharpe as he navigates political intrigue in Cadiz, confronts blackmailers, and ultimately battles in the historic Battle of Barrosa to defend Britain’s interests.

Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe returns to the battlefield for one final campaign as the British and Prussian forces face the looming threat of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Set in the spring of 1811, Richard Sharpe commands an untrained Irish battalion of Spain’s royal guard to defend San Isidro against a French brigade and lead a decisive assault on the battlefields of Fuentes de Onoro during the Peninsular War.

Richard Sharpe faces a daring siege during the Peninsular War, navigating political intrigue and battlefield danger while thwarting a French offensive that threatens Wellington’s plans.

An action‑packed historical fiction set during the Napoleonic Wars, following Captain Richard Sharpe as he confronts betrayal and battles to defend Toulouse in 1814, before finally laying down his sword.

Richard Sharpe faces a cruel winter, a career‑stealing rival, and his most ruthless foe yet as he vows to storm the strongly fortified town of Badajoz in hopes of redeeming himself.

Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is sent to Copenhagen in 1807 to broker a bribe that could prevent war, but the city’s strategic fleet, Danish neutrality, and French ambitions turn his mission into a perilous game of spies and survival.

Former Waterloo hero Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe is drawn from his farming life to a perilous quest in 1820 Chile, chasing a vanished friend and confronting the era’s turmoil of corruption and revolution.

Richard Sharpe confronts political intrigue and betrayal as he must travel to England to secure new recruits for his regiment before it is wiped out by Whitehall bureaucracy during the Napoleonic Wars.

In the peninsular battlefield of 1812, Captain Richard Sharpe confronts a deadly secret conflict while the British plan a decisive engagement that could alter the course of the war.

In Douglas Reeman’s World War I novel, the third entry in the Blackwood saga, Jonathan Blackwood and his Royal Marine family confront the brutal realities of Gallipoli and Flanders, as the age of honor gives way to modern warfare.

During the Peninsular War, Richard Sharpe confronts his ruthless nemesis, Obadiah Hakeswill, as both men clash in a siege on a mountain pass that holds captured British and French women.

Published for the 200th anniversary of the battle, the groundbreaking new account of the last days of the Napoleonic Wars. Published for the 200th anniversary of the battle, the groundbreaking new account of the last days of the Napoleonic Wars. In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity. In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot. Contains primary source material.

Richard Sharpe faces a court-martial and a condemned gallows sentence, yet must rally his men again in the Peninsular War, navigating political intrigue between England and Spain amid French intelligence threats.