From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe's Rifles

'A revealing account of the tricky reality behind TV's glamorous image' Daily Mail

In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe's Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that they would be sending Jason and the crew to film in a rapidly disintegrating Soviet Union. There they faced near-starvation and danger round every corner as they set about creating one of Britain's most su...