‘Sharpe's Christmas’ contains two short stories. In the title story
Richard Sharpe, commanding the Prince of Wales's Own Volunteers, finds himself
in a high, hard place with an enemy brigade on one side and a desperate force of
Frenchmen fleeing their defeat in Spain on the other.
The second story, ‘Sharpe's Ransom’, is set in France, after the wars, when
old enemies take Sharpe's woman and child hostage.