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WHITE DEVIL: An epic story of revenge from the savage war that inspired The Last
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WHITE DEVIL: An epic story of revenge from the savage war that inspired The Last of the Mohicans. Hardcover - 2004

by BRUMWELL, STEPHEN:

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,montage colour photographic illustrated front panel dw/dj with glossy gold colour lettered title+sub-title and other black lettering; similar coloured lettered author/title/publisher to spine/backstrip which has thumbnail colour photograph detail from front photograph montage to foot of spine,rear panel of dw/dj with front photograph detail with glossy gold coloured title and named critics' reviews and black coloured lettered synopsis and critics' quotes.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners,majority of creasing to top edges and minimal bumping with reciprocal creases to head+foot of spine/backstrip – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no intentional dog-ear reading creases,but an accidental tiny top corner tip crease to consecutive pp251-54 – otherwise near pristine,and appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain redbrick sets of endpapers - book has a slight lean.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,11-355 pp [paginated] includes author's Preface,9 chapters,Notes,appendices(2), Dramatis Personae, acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with an epigraph to it's reverse,a contents list/table with b/w regional map and inset key (North America in 1755 showing European Colonies and Tribal Territories) to it's reverse,another following/facing b/w regional map and inset key (Robert Rogers' Expedition to St Francis, 1759). During the 1750s, rival European colonists sought allies amongst Native American tribes.Abenaki warbands raided the English settlements and participated in the infamous massacre at Fort William Henry - an incident immortalised in "The Last of the Mohicans". This episode fuelled an escalating cycle of revenge that reached a bloody climax two years later when Robert Rogers and his rangers were ordered deep within enemy territory to destroy the Abenaki village of St Francis,which they did with ruthless efficiency.However the raiders endured a nightmare journey as they struggled home.Several were caught by vengeful pursuers and tortured to death; others resorted to cannibalism rather than starve in the wilderness. Rogers' raid was celebrated by Anglo-American colonists, and its leader is credited with founding the 'special forces' tradition in the US Army.Others view the St Francis raid as an eighteenth-century My Lai massacre,in which helpless men and women were butchered.Eschewing prejudices,Stephen Brumwell deploys vivid prose and meticulous research to reconstruct this controversial and dramatic episode from America's violent frontier past. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.
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