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02789pam a2200493 a 4500 001 181E62B06C0111DEA13FF332A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20190920010302 008 060824s2006 nyub 000 1 eng 010 $a 2006049898 020 $a 9780060530488 020 $a 0060530480 020 $a 9780007120154 (hbk.) 020 $a 000712015X (hbk.) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d BAKER $d IH9 $d IOS $d OCO $d WIQ $d VP@ $d TNH $d XY4 $d NPL $d CCP $d BTCTA $d IWV $d SILO 043 $a e-sp--- $a e-sp--- 050 00 $a PR6053.O75 $b S527 2006 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 22 100 1 $a Cornwell, Bernard. 245 1 $a Sharpe's fury : $b Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811 / $c Bernard Cornwell. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York, NY : $b HarperCollinsPublishers, $c c2006. 300 $a 337 p. : $b maps ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a In the winter of 1811 the war seemed lost. All Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz which is now the Spanish capital and is under siege. Wellington and his British army are in Portugal, waiting for spring to spark the war to life again. Richard Sharpe and his company are part of a small expeditionary force sent to break a bridge across the River Guadiana. What begins as a brilliant piece of soldiering turns into disaster, thanks to the brutal savagery of the French Colonel Vandal who is leading his battalion to join the siege of Cadiz. Sharpe extricates a handful of men from the debacle and is driven south into the threatened city. There, in Cadiz, he discovers more than one enemy. Many Spaniards doubt Britain's motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French, and one of them. A baleful priest, secures a powerful weapon to break the British alliance. He will use a beautiful whore and the letters she received from a wealthy man. 650 0 $a Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History, Military $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Barrosa, Battle of, Spain, 1811 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Spain $x History $y Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Barrosa (CaÌdiz, Spain) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a War stories. $2 gsafd 941 $a 9 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417011533.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207020841.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331011535.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201015340.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211211010033.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20200428010928.0 952 $l XUPC157 $d 20200411011523.0 952 $l JLPF081 $d 20150213090205.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20131206015150.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=181E62B06C0111DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search