Аннотация
BERNARD CORNWELL
Sharpe's Company
Sharpe's Company is for the Harper family, Charlie and Marie, Patrick, Donna and Terry, with affection and gratitude
'Now thou art come unto a feast of death.
William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part I, Act 4, Scene 5.PART ONE
January 1812
CHAPTER 1
A pale horse seen a mile away at sunrise means the night is over. Sentries can relax, battalions stand down, because the moment for a surprise dawn attack has passed.
But not on this day. A grey horse would hardly have been visible at a hundred paces, let alone a mile, and the dawn was shredded with dirty cannon smoke that melded with the snow-clouds. Only one living thing moved in the grey space between the British and French lines; a small, dark bird that hopped busily in the snow. Captain Richard Sharpe, huddled in his greatcoat, watched the bird and willed it to fly away. Move, you bastard! Fly! He hated the superstition in himself. He had spotted the tiny bi...
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