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  • Sharpe's Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812

  • The Sharpe Series, Book 15
  • By: Bernard Cornwell
  • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
  • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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Sharpe's Enemy: The Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812

By: Bernard Cornwell
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
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Publisher's Summary

Major Sharpe, in the bitter winter, must attempt a desperate rescue and face his most implacable enemy.

Newly promoted, he is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe's bitter enemy.

Sharpe has only the support of his own company and the new Rocket Troop - the last word in military incompetence - but he cannot afford to contemplate defeat. For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies… 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.

©1984 Bernard Cornwell (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

“Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.” ( Sunday Telegraph)
“Bernard Cornwell is a literary miracle. Year after year, hail, rain, snow, war and political upheavals fail to prevent him from producing the most entertaining and readable historical novels of his generation.” ( Daily Mail)
“Cornwell's narration is quite masterly and supremely well-researched.” ( Observer)
“The best battle scenes of any writer I've ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.” (George R.R. Martin)

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Sharpe gains clarity. A Master of War and Death. But a tragic in life. Life for Sharpe will always be a battle and even as one Enemy is eliminated, a future Enemy is already being formed to match Obadiah. The most compelling book of series to date.

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I love the Sharpe series but hearing it on audio book for the first time made me realise the importance of the narrator. I shouldn't be so annoyed by the fact that someone who was raised in the alleys of a London slum has somehow acquired a thick Geordie accent but I found myself cringing every time Sharpe spoke a line. Other than this minor annoyance it was great.

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