Breathtaking adventure during the French Revolution (1793) as Harry Sandwith, a young Englishman is hired to be a companion to the sons of a nobleman. Throughout the story, Harry is called upon to summon his courage as he rescues his French...
Le kopje (mine de diamants) de Nelson’s Fountain était, ce jour-là, plus que jamais, plein de bruit et d’animation. À l’incessante activité habituellement déployée par les diggers de toute race, de toute couleur, avait brusquement...
It is the late summer of 1810 and the French mount their third and most threatening invasion of Portugal. Captain Richard Sharpe, with his company of redcoats and riflemen, meets the invaders on the gaunt ridge of Bussaco where, despite a...