Not only for Sharpe's fans, but for all who like an unusual and historically well underpinned tale, this recent Cornwell is one of the very good ones in the long list of his panorama of the Napoleonic wars. In the Historical Note he discusses the British attacks on Copenhagen in 1807, killing 1600 Danish civilians, in order to save the Danish fleet from the French, showing the British at their most ruthless.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 40 June 2007 ) |
