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Sharpe’s Escape
The Sharpe Series (Related to this series)
- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- Narrator
- Rupert Farley
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 28 August 2014
- Run Time
- 14 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*
Portugal, 1811
Captain Richard Sharpe’s renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy – one fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra.
Forced to retreat across treacherous terrain, the British army prepare vast defences at the Lines of Torres Vedras – their greatest secret and their last hope of stopping the French reaching Lisbon. And risking everything to re-join his regiment, and lead the army into battle once more, is Sharpe . . .
‘A master storyteller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
Critics Review
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‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday Telegraph
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'Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.' Daily Mail
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'Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.' Observer
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‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.’ George R.R. Martin
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Details
- Author
- Bernard Cornwell
- Narrator
- Rupert Farley
- Duration
- 14 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 August 2014
- ISBN
- 9780007582556
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Historical adventure fiction, Napoleonic War fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: journeys and voyages
Synopsis
*SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Portugal, 1811 Captain Richard Sharpe’s renegade ways leave him discarded by his regiment and waging a war against a private Portuguese enemy – one fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra. Forced to retreat across treacherous terrain, the British army prepare vast defences at the Lines of Torres Vedras – their greatest secret and their last hope of stopping the French reaching Lisbon. And risking everything to re-join his regiment, and lead the army into battle once more, is Sharpe . . . ‘A master storyteller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
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