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<strong>From </strong><em> <strong>New York Times</strong> </em><strong> bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned</strong><em> <strong> </strong> </em><strong>Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. </strong> 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.
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Sharpe's Escape, Bernard Cornwell
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- Released
- 2004
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Sharpe's Escape
- Subtitle
- Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1810
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bernard Cornwell
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN10
- 0007120133
- ISBN13
- 9780007120130
- Series
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- <strong>From </strong><em> <strong>New York Times</strong> </em><strong> bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned</strong><em> <strong> </strong> </em><strong>Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. </strong> 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.