Sharpe’s Honour: The Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813

Sharpe’s Honour: The Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813
Bernard Cornwell

Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alike.Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army’s campaign with grim expectancy. For victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain – an alliance that must be maintained at any cost.Pierre Ducos, the wily French intelligence officer, sees a chance both to destroy the alliance and to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe. And when the lovely spy, La Marquesa, takes a hand in the game, Sharpe finds himself enmeshed in a web of political intrigue for which his military expertise has left him fatally unprepared.Soldier, hero, rogue – Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.

SHARPE’S

HONOUR

Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813

BERNARD CORNWELL

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Previously published in paperback by Fontana 1986

Reprinted seven times

First published in Great Britain by Collins 1985

Copyright © Rifleman Productions Ltd 1985

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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.

‘Men huddled on hillsides, anxiously surveying the enemy guns trained against them and steeling themselves for some kind of counter-attack. They are beautifully observed and, in their evocation of quiet heroism, pulse with rare humanity’

Sunday Telegraph

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ud5efb689-9a3c-5de5-8e13-11b2d15ee050)

Copyright (#u9d679a32-4c84-5b56-b41a-468e24eb8db6)

Dedication (#u1ebfaed1-ad7c-56dd-8107-a6a0d8dc0aec)

Epigraph (#ud535f2d2-f87b-50f4-89a7-9f9eebb9c94d)

Map (#u9180c54d-2eca-5e42-89ec-88697be24b44)

Prologue (#u20fca203-947f-5dcc-acba-3bbca06b3742)

Chapter One (#u98bbbad4-a5db-5124-8d59-f3ec7e689c19)

Chapter Two (#ub71fe8b2-399e-561d-8d87-1d4902623d4f)

Chapter Three (#uf3468933-70ce-59d8-b626-097cfcc61ccf)

Chapter Four (#ua707c15a-e546-5002-906a-6a23f60f2043)

Chapter Five (#u1d23662c-cce0-5b2e-874d-b433343e7bd3)

Chapter Six (#u037166ce-bdb2-56ae-9112-b2f7a8a5bbe2)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)