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Displaying book editions selected for your country. I run tabletop roleplay sessions and was writing the setting to my own game legend. The story is a wonderful blend of archaeology and invention. I do remember a splendid scene with sergeant patrick harper and a dungheap and that sharpe meets the first of his wives while trying to rescue a great pile of spanish.
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