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Sharpe's Escape
by Cornwell, Bernard
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- Hardcover
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- first
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins Pub., 2004. First Edition. Fine in red paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with small spots of foxing to the top edge of the text block. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by the author on the title page. The 20th volume in the Sharpe's series which occurs in Portugal during the Bussaco Champaign of 1810. 351 pages of text illustrated with a map.
Synopsis
Sharpe's Escape is the tenth novel in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, finding the hero embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the Ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive was successfully halted.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB25312
- Title
- Sharpe's Escape
- Author
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Pub.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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