Sharpe's command : Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 / Soldiers Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Cornwell, Bernard,

Sharpe's command : Richard Sharpe and the Bridge at Almaraz, May 1812 / Bernard Cornwell. - 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Richard Sharpe ; 23. . - Cornwell, Bernard. Richard Sharpe series ; 23. .

Spain, 1812. Richard Sharpe, the most brilliant - but the most wayward - soldier in the British army, finds himself faced with an impossible task. Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost. And only Sharpe - with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on - stands in their way.

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Sharpe, Richard, (Fictitious character) --Fiction.


Soldiers--Fiction.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Fiction.


Great Britain--History, Military--19th century--Fiction.


War fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.

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