Аннотация
BERNARD CORNWELL
Sharpe’s Honour
SHARPE’S HONOUR
is for
Jasper Partington and Shona Crawford Poole, who marched from the very start.
We’ll search every room for to find rich treasure, And when we have got it we’ll spend it at leisure. We’ll card it, we’ll dice it, we’ll spend without measure, And when it’s all gone, bid adieu to all pleasure.
From: The Grenadier’s March (Anon),Quoted in THE RAMBLING SOLDIER, edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Books, 1977.PROLOGUE
There was a secret that would win the war for France. Not a secret weapon, nor some surprise strategy that would send the enemies of France reeling in defeat, but a sleight of politics that would drive the British from Spain without a musket being fired. It was a secret that must be kept, and must be paid for.
To which end, on a pitiless winter’s day in 1813, two men climbed into the northern hills of Spain. Whenever the road forked they took the lesser path. They climbed by frost-...
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