Sharpe's fury Richard Sharpe and the battle of Barrosal, March 1811

378 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2011 by London.

ISBN:
978-0-00-789971-5
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OCLC Number:
1016695866

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For more than twenty years, Richard Sharpe, the brave and dashing officer who rose from rags on the street to a commission in his majesty's army, has been thrilling audiences on both the page and on screen. Now the incomparable Bernard Cornwell ("the greatest writer of historical novels today"*) returns with a thrilling new installment—the first new Sharpe novel in more than two years.The year is 1811. With the British army penned into a small part of Portugal, and all of Spain fallen to the invader except for the coastal city of Cadiz, the French appear to have won their war. Captain Richard Sharpe has no business being in Cadiz, but when an attack on a French-held bridge goes disastrously wrong, Sharpe—accompanied by Harper, his loyal Irish sergeant, and the obnoxious Brigadier Moon—finds himself in a city under French siege. It is also a town riven by political rivalry. Some …

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Subjects

  • Richard Sharpe (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction
  • Soldiers
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
  • War stories