THE BLOODY GROUND. [Vol 4 - STARBUCK CHRONICLES.]
by CORNWELL**, BERNARD:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+./VG+.
- ISBN 10
- 000225333X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002253338
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated artwork by Gino D'achille,to upper wrap,critics' reviews to rear wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Top edge+fore-edges lightly marked and slightly aged/toned,contents bright,tight and clean,though the book is slightly cocked.Plain,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,4-343pp includes half-title+title pages,double-page b/w map of Battle of Antietam,1862.Nathaniel Starbuck,the northern preacher's son who fights for the Confederate South,is plunged into the most desperate battle of America's Civil War,the fight at Antietam,in this,the fourth novel in the Starbuck Chronicles. It is late summer,1862,and after beating off repeated northern attacks the Confederacy is at last invading the United States of America.The invasion is a gamble,pitting a small army against a huge one,and for its success Robert Lee will need every veteran soldier he can muster. Nathaniel Starbuck is one of those veterans,but instead of marching at the head of the Faulconer Legion,he has been given command of a Punishment Battalion,a unit composed of failures and cowards. Starbuck's enemies expect the appointment to be his ruin,and if he is to stand any chance of further success he must prove those enemies wrong by leading his ramshackle unit against the northern garrison at Harper's Ferry and then across the frontier to the bank of the Antietam Creek.There Starbuck will fight in what will prove to be the bloodiest day in America's history. Starbuck is not only fighting the Yankees.Unknown to him one of his best friends is doing all he can to betray the South,a betrayal that will place Lee's army in a desperate trap,while in his new battalion Starbuck has enemies every bit as dangerous as those who wear the northern blue.In Antietam's cornfield,where twelve thousand men died in three terrible hours,Starbuck is caught in a crossfire of hate, envy,murder and ambition.To win is simply to survive. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
Synopsis
A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield, The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.Right at the moment Nate Starbuck begins to doubt his own courage, the Faulconer Legion is spitefully stripped from him and he is given command of the Yellowlegs – a battalion of cowards, malingerers, stragglers, skulkers and convicts led by cowards and bullies. In order to restore the honour of the Special Battalion, Starbuck pits himself and his Yellowlegs against the Union army at Sharpsburg in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. But not all his enemies are northerners: among his own ranks are white demons, bad as they come, whose rifles, revolvers and resentments are aimed at Starbuck's back.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE BLOODY GROUND. [Vol 4 - STARBUCK CHRONICLES.]
- Author
- CORNWELL**, BERNARD:
- Format/Binding
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+.
- Jacket Condition
- VG+.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 000225333X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002253338
- Publisher
- LONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1996.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 000225333X.Modern fiction.US Civil War historical fiction.US historical military fiction.Nathaniel Starbuck novels.North vs. South US fiction.Confederacy Battle of Antietam,1862.Robert Lee.Harper's Ferry.Bat
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