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The Starbuck Chronicles - The Bloody Ground (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 4)
By Bernard Cornwell
The fourth volume of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War and featuring rebel Nathaniel Starbuck – a yankee fighting for the Southern cause.
It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.
Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.
Praise for THE BLOODY GROUND: -
”'The best so far in Cornwell’s American Civil War series . . . The cacophony of the cornfield slaughter is stunningly conveyed” - Daily Mail
”'A very fine novel indeed; Bernard Cornwell at his disticntive best . . . builds to a gripping climax . . . stirring stuff” - Sunday Telegraph
”'Cornwell is as masterly as ever at conjuring up the grisly nature of nineteenth-century campaigning and the terrifying adrenaline surge experienced on a battlefield reeking of black powder and blood” - The Times
Praise for Bernard Cornwell: -
”'The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.” - George R.R. Martin