Sharpe's escape : Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 / Bernard Cornwell.
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2004.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 357 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0060530472
- 823/.914 22
- PR6053.O75 S527 2004
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Main Library | Fiction | Cornwell, Bernard | RS 23 | Available | 33111002992747 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam.
Sharpe's job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus - a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal's ancient university city.
Sharpe's Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die.
"Originally published in 2003 in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.