SHARPE'S ENEMY

Meet Richard Sharpe, a great British hero. Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. One of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe's bitter enemy. Sharpe has only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop, the last word in military incompetence, but he cannot afford to contemplate defeat because to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies. The book is almost entirely fictional and based on Charles Oman's 'A History of the Peninsular War' where he mentions bands of 'floating scum of unlicensed marauders'. With map, facsimile reprint of the 1985 paperback edition with added historical notes. 350pp, paperback.