Sharpe's Tiger из жанра Исторические приключения - Скачать бесплатно полную версию

Sharpe's Tiger

Исторические приключения

Автор: Корнуэлл Бернард

Серия: Sharpe #1

Язык: английский

Оригинальное название: Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

Страниц: 83

Издатель: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

ISBN: 978-0007774005

Статус: Закончена

Добавил: Admin 6 Июл 11

Проверил: Admin 6 Июл 11

Формат: FB2 (254 Kb) RTF (286 Kb) TXT (277 Kb) HTML (282 Kb) EPUB (368 Kb) MOBI (1314 Kb) JAR (313 Kb) JAD (0 Kb)

Currently 0/5

Рейтинг: 0/5 (Всего голосов: 0)

Аннотация

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.

The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners — or, worse — his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.