"Right – the extraordinary heroism of Archibald Campbell. I don’t want to
give away the book’s ending,
except to say that the fortress of Gawilghur was reckoned to be impregnable, and the
assaulting British
forces were certainly in an enormous amount of trouble when Captain Campbell found a
short-cut that
ended the siege in a wonderfully dramatic manner. Sharpe, of course, has to be the hero,
so he
shamelessly steals Campbell’s thunder, for which I hope Campbell’s ghost will
forgive him. Some
readers might think Sharpe’s exploit was well nigh impossible, but it actually
happened - just as it’s
described at the novel’s end."
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