Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810 - Couverture souple

Cornwell, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007120141 ISBN 13 : 9780007120147

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series.

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington’s orders, and captain Richard Sharpe.

But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Sharpe, discarded by his regiment, wages a private war against Ferragus – a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s ancient university city. Sharpe’s enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper, the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent and a prickly English governess, whose first aim is to clean up Sharpe’s language.

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.

This is a classic Sharpe novel, with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper, and facing enemies on every side.

Bernard Cornwell's book 'Sharpe’s Storm' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-10-27.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007120141
• ISBN 13: 9780007120147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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