Sharpe’s Enemy - Bernard Cornwell

Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue the well-born women held hostage by a rabble of deserters. But one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill Sharpe’s most implacable enemy.

And the rescue is the least of Sharpe’s problems. A far greater menace is threatening. With only the support of his own Company and he new Rocket Troop – the last word in military incompetence – to back his gamble, Sharpe cannot afford even to recognise the prospect of defeat. For to surrender – or to fail – would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies…