Sharpe's Escape

The Bussaco Campaign, 1810

von Bernard Cornwell

368 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. 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.

• Reihe: Harper Paperbacks
• ISBN: 9780060561550
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2013
• Größe: 204 x 136 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins