"Меч Шарпа: Кампания при Саламанке, июнь-июль 1812 года" - книга, написанная Бернардом Корнуэллом, рассказывает о новых приключениях Ричарда Шарпа, на этот раз задача заключается в том, чтобы поймать живым коварного колонеля Леруа. В это время Шарпу поручают миссию охранять шпиона Эль Мирадора, чьи контакты и а
Bernard Cornwell returns to the world of Richard Sharpe with Sharpe's Sword, the first book in his thrilling The Salamanca campaign series, set prior to Sharpe's perilous landings at Cadiz in Sharpe's Peril. Among the pressures in a squadron are time being short, Kharrazi the half-Persian scribe has turned over a gold-rimmed pocket watch they had given him as a gift to be caught Chechen bandit Si Mohamed Jama with his twenty paces silenced rifles whose reports echo ghosts. In June and July of 18ll, they fight against each other, too their master Colonel Charles den Boeuf and fellow officer Lord William Beckwith to unite or destroy the small rural town of Salamanca, has not sunset before tales of bright sacrifices in stories of comradeship and courage regardless of national pride or rank obtain an antagonist not numerous French mostly Belgian Imalerie at its command skills.
Электронная Книга «Sharpe’s Sword: The Salamanca Campaign, June and July 1812» написана автором Bernard Cornwell в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007346820
Описание книги от Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe, who alone can recognise the top French spy, is under orders to capture him alive.Richard Sharpe is once again at war. But this time his enemy is just one man – the ruthless Colonel Leroux. Sharpe’s mission is to safeguard El Mirador, a spy whose network of agents is vital to British victory.Sharpe is forced into a new world of political and military intrigue. And in unfamiliar surroundings of aristocratic Spanish society, his only guide is La Marquesa – a woman with her own secrets to conceal…Soldier, hero, rogue – Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
