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.
| ISBN: | 9780007497959 |
| Publication date: | 26th September 2013 |
| Author: | Bernard Cornwell |
| Publisher: | HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Series: | The Starbuck Chronicles |
| Genres: |
War, combat and military adventure fiction Historical adventure fiction Historical Fiction |