Sharpe's Escape. Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810.

London England: HarperCollins, 2004. Hardback. First Edition. It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea by sending their largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat from a better connected officer and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus, who has devised a simple way of ingratiating himself with the French invaders who, he is certain, will be Portual's new rulers. This book begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena's crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where French hopes of occupying Portugal and finishing the war wuickly die. This is a classic Sharpe novel, with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper, and facing enemies on every side. 351 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hadrback.