About the book: 2021 / At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to the expanses of the Indian Ocean. One of the builders of this empire, a participant in all the wars that England waged at that time, was Rifleman Sharp. In the novel “The Guns of Rifleman Sharpe,” the hero’s detachment is surrounded by French troops, winning one victory after another on the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish cavalrymen help Sharpe avoid shameful captivity. But everything comes at a price, and Sharpe will have to take part in a suicidal attempt to liberate the holy city of Santiago de Compostela. In the novel Sharpe's War, Napoleon's troops rush to seize Portuguese territory, and no one knows whether a small British contingent will join battle with the enemy, or the British will receive an order to return to their homeland. But Sharpe has his own war. He receives the task of finding Kate Savage, the daughter of a wealthy English merchant.…