SHARPE’S
HONOUR
Richard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813
BERNARD CORNWELL
Copyright
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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
Bernard Cornwell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Ebook Edition © July 2009 ISBN: 9780007338696
Version: 2017-05-06
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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
The SHARPE Series (in chronological order)
The SHARPE Series (in order of publication)