Sharpe's Escape (Reviews)

The Enemy At His Side by David Robson
Sun 02 May 2004
Sunday Telegraph

The twentieth Sharpe novel shows no diminution in energy. Bernard Cornwell knows his man, knows how to harness his qualities to the services of good fiction, and does not miss a trick. This latest yarn from the Peninsular Wars is a worthy addition to a remarkable canon…It all makes for an agreeably sinuous tale, with some nerve-racking military skirmishes, which Cornwell describes with unrivalled authority, and a vivid gallery of minor characters…In an age when it has never been more important for the lot of the common soldier to be described without cant or sentimentality, Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.