WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE WHERE POSSIBLE - SMALL SIZE SOFT COVER PAPERBACK EDITION-ISBN 9780007879700.Sharpe's Company is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1982. It was the third in the series to be published, but is thirteenth in chronological order. The story covers January to August 1812, featuring the Siege of Badajoz during the Peninsular War.