Sharpe’s Battle: The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811. Bernard Cornwell

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

      Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1995

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      This novel is a work of fiction.

       The incidents and some of the characters portrayed in it, while based on real historical events and figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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      Source ISBN: 9780006473244

      Ebook Edition © March 2012 ISBN: 9780007339525

      Version: 2017-05-08

      Sharpe’s Battle is for Sean Bean

      ‘As always the action’s the thing – and once Sharpe is surrounded by enemies, both on his own side and the opposition, events move at their usual satisfyingly breathless pace’

       Independent on Sunday

      Contents

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

       Part One

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Part Two

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Historical Note

       Keep Reading

       Sharpe’s Story

       About the Author

       The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)

       The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)

       Also by Bernard Cornwell

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

      CHAPTER ONE

      Sharpe swore. Then, in desperation, he turned the map upside down. ‘Might as well not have a bloody map,’ he said, ‘for all the bloody use it is.’

      ‘We could light a fire with it,’ Sergeant Harper suggested. ‘Good kindling’s hard to come by in these hills.’

      ‘It’s no bloody use for anything else,’ Sharpe said. The hand-drawn map showed a scatter of villages, a few spidery lines for roads, streams or rivers, and some vague hatchings denoting hills, СКАЧАТЬ