Major Sharpe in the bitter winter must attempt a desperate rescue & face his most implacable enemy. Newly promoted he is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. & one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill Sharpe s bitter enemy. Sharpe has only the support of his own company & the new Rocket Troop
- the last word in military incompetence
- but he cannot afford to contemplate defeat. For to surrender or to fail would mean the end of the war for the Allied armies... Soldier hero rogue
- Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail & climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.