Sharpe’s Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 - Couverture souple

Cornwell, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006513093 ISBN 13 : 9780006513094

Editeur : HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

The seventeenth Sharpe novel sees Sharpe returning from India to London to join the newly formed Green jackets.

In this adventure, Sharpe is on his way home from India. He is sailing with the Royal Navy, who are hunting a formidable French warship, the ‘Revenant’, carrying a secret treaty that may prove lethal to the British.

The ‘Revenant’ makes it to the safety of the French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz, and it seems Sharpe’s enemies have found safety. Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe’s revenge will come in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex and worked for the BBC for eleven years before meeting Judy, his American wife. Denied an American work permit he wrote a novel instead and has been writing ever since. He and Judy divide their time between Cape Cod and Charleston, South Carolina.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe, having secured a reputation as a fighting soldier in India, is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship, the Revenant which is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian ocean. An old opponent of Sharpe's is aboard his ship, and the voyage is further disturbed by the Lady Grace Hale, apparently as unreachable as she is beautiful.

Sharpe also has friends, notably a captain of the Royal Navy who is hunting the 'Revenant' and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost. The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British. Yet when the 'Revenant' encounters the combined French and Spanish fleet of Cadiz it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety, even as his enemies on board seem to have him trapped.

Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will come in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.

'Sharpe's Trafalgar' introduces Richard Sharpe to the horrors of a battle at sea, and finds him at his most ruthless as he struggles not just for revenge, but for the woman he loves.

"Cornwell's combination of breakneck action and pig-headed men behaving badly – but with dazzling brio – is just unbeatable"
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006513093
• ISBN 13: 9780006513094
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: HarperCollins Publishers; service@harpercollins.de; ; Valentinskamp 24; Hamburg; Hamburg; 20354; Allemagne