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Sharpe's SommeIt is the dark days of 1916 and Richard Sharpe, aged 142, is called out of retirement to lead a Pals regiment (all chosen men) into battle on the Somme. In his bathchair, pushed by Sergeant Harper (the great-great-grandson of the original) he leads his men over the top and onto the German trenches. Despite personally bayoneting several dozen huns with a kitchen knife strapped to his walking stick, he is captured when his superiors decline to reinforce his success until after "tiffin". Taken to Colditz castle he escapes by constructing his own hot air balloon only to be recaptured by a pursuing zeppelin. By a ruse, he captures the zeppelin and flies it to England where its secrets enable the war office to produce effective counter measures and shorten the war by some years. (Apparently there is another similar book out called "Sharpe's Trafalgar" but the reviewer felt this was too far fetched for a sensible wargames magazine). |