Sharpe's Escape - First UK Printing, Signed

Cornwell, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0007120133 / ISBN 13: 9780007120130

Published by Harper Collins, London, 2004

About this Item

Signed by the author at the title page. A First Printing of the UK edition, published in London by Harper Collins in 2004. In Fine used condition, minor rubbing to the upper corners of the boards. The protected dustjacket is unclipped and without tears or nicks etc but is colour-faded at the spine. Presents well overall, however, Near Fine.

Seller Inventory # 1901201242

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sharpe's Escape - First UK Printing, Signed
• Publisher: Harper Collins, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007120133
• ISBN 13: 9780007120130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Author-Signed First Editions
  • Cinema and Books into Film

About this title

Synopsis

The twentieth instalment in the bestselling Sharpe series. Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most dangerous invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe with his company of redcoats and riflemen meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco. But there, despite a stunning British victory, the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back. Sharpe has made enemies among the Portuguese and during the retreat through Coimbra, he and Sergeant Harper are lured into a trap designed to kill them. With the help of an Englishwoman, Sharpe survives, but is cut off from the army. He has to rejoin his regiment if the command is not to fall to the ambitious Lieutenant Slinbsby. At the Lines of Torres Vedras, the vast defences built to stop the French before Lisbon, Sharpe confronts his enemies in a climactic battle.

From the Back Cover

Only two obstacles stand between Napoleon's mighty army and its seemingly certain conquest of Portugal: a land wasted and stripped of food at Wellington's orders . . . and Captain Richard Sharpe. But perils from within and without threaten the bold captain of the Light Company -- the hatred and incompetence of a superior officer, the vicious treachery of a false ally . . . and the overwhelming numbers of a fierce, determined enemy, combining to make Sharpe's escape a near impossibility.