Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811

Bernard Cornwell

ISBN 10: 000712015X / ISBN 13: 9780007120154

Edité par HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 2006

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Near fine first edition, first printing, in very good or better dust jacket. Book is a trifle dusty and text block is spotted at top edge. Dj has minor shelf wear at top edge. Not price clipped.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Sharpe's Fury: Richard Sharpe and The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
• Éditeur: HarperCollinsPublishers, London
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 000712015X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780007120154
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Bon
• État de la jaquette: Assez bon
• Dimensions: 15,9 L x 24 H x 3,3 P (centimètres) 15,9 centimètres de largeur par 24 centimètres de hauteur par 3,3 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 694 grammes

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Synopsis

The long-awaited twenty-first novel in the number one bestselling series featuring Richard Sharpe.

In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again.
Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city.

There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy. Many Spaniards doubt Britain's motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French, and one of them, a baleful priest, secures a powerful weapon to break the British alliance. He will use a beautiful whore and the letters she received from a wealthy man. The priest will use blackmail, and Sharpe must defeat him in a sinister war of knife and treachery in the dark alleys of the city.

Yet the alliance will only survive if the French siege can be lifted. An allied army marches from the city to take on the more powerful French and, once again, a brilliant piece of soldiering turns to disaster, this time because the Spanish refuse to fight. A small British force is trapped by a French army, and the only hope now lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on a hill beside the sea, refuse to admit defeat. And there, in the sweltering horror of Barrosa, Sharpe finds Colonel Vandal again.

‘Sharpe's Fury’ is based on the real events of the winter of 1811 that led to the extraordinary victory of Barrosa, the battle which saw the British capture the first French eagle of the Napoleonic Wars.

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.