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Sharpe's Christmas by Bernard Cornwell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sharpe's Christmas about?

A Richard Sharpe short story, featuring scenes of action and adventure at Christmas.'You'll like Irati,' Colonel Hogan said. 'It's a nothing place, Richard. Hovels and misery, that's all it is and all it ever will be, but that's where you're going for Christmas.'Sharpe was sent to Irati because maybe the French were going there. The garrison planned to march at Christmas in the hope that their enemies would be too bloated with beef and wine to fight, but Hogan had got wind of their plans and was now setting his snares on the only two routes that the escaping French could use. One, the eastern road, was by far the easier route, for it entered France through a low pass, and Hogan guessed it was that route that the French would choose. But there was a second road, a tight, hard, steep road, and that had to be blocked as well and so the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers, Sharpe's regiment, would climb into the hills and spend their Christmas at a place of hovels...

Who reads Sharpe's Christmas?

Author

Bernard Cornwell

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (2,453 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14