At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the British Empire stretched from the English Channel to 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 has to be paid for, and Sharpe will have to take part in a suicidal attempt to liberate the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela for the Spaniards. The sixth novel in the series “The Adventures of Richard Sharpe.”