Sharpe Sharpe's Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810, Book 10, (Paperback)

from joririchardson

I picked this book up at a used bookstore, and it just happened to be the tenth in the series (something that has been happening to me a lot lately). So I was here introduced to Captain Richard Sharpe, a ruthless soldier fighting in the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 Portugal. Besides battling the French...

from DinadansFriend

This one of the best Sharpe's! I'm fond of Bussaco, a classic Wellington battle, and the war reporting by Cornwell is well done. The scale of peril to our hero and the amount his actions will have on larger issues is well balanced in this book. It is not so much a spy story which can be a draw-ba...

from quiBee

Set in the Penninsular War, Sharpe destroys a supply of food that was going to be sold to the French by two Portuguese and creates an implacable, ruthless enemy. Closer to home, his commanding officer tries to sideline him so another officer can gain more experience and (Sharpe fears) take over h...

from 5hrdrive

Cornwell uses the same formula here that he does with other Sharpe stories; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This time, it's brilliant - the best Sharpe story since Sharpe's Fortress. Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper are a two man wrecking crew, and my favorite characters in historical ...

from BruderBane

"Sharpe's Escape" by Bernard Cornwell couples quite nicely all the elements of daring and adventure this reader has come to expect from Mr. Cornwell's novels. All the Sharpe regulars -like Harper, Sharpe and the prerequisite lady in distress- are back with an old friend and a new vicious enemy. N...