Sharpe's Escape.

BERNARD CORNWELL

Publication: Scorpion Press, 2004, Gladestry

First edition. Limited edition of 85 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy 51. With an appreciation by Patricia Finney. Fine in quarter leather and marbled boards in transparent dust jacket. It is the summer of 1810, and the French are mounting their most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. Despite a British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back. Sharpe has made enemies among the Portuguese and during the retreat through Coimbra, he and Sgt. Harper are lured into a trap designed to kill them. With the help of an Englishwoman, Sharpe survives, but is cut off from the army. He has to rejoin his regiment if the command is not to fall to the ambitious Lieutenant Slinbsby.

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