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The fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.
It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is at last invading the United States of America. Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son who fights for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion , a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect the appointment to be his downfall. To prove them wrong, Starbuck must lead the ramshackle unit against the northern garrison at Harper's Ferry and then across the frontier to the bank of the Antietam Creek. There he will fight in what will prove to be the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield.
RRP: $19.95
| ISBN 13: | 9780006496663 |
| ISBN 10: | 0006496660 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 423 |
| Dimensions: | 175 x 111 mm |
| Released: | 26/03/1997 |
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Born in Essex in 1944, Bernard Cornwell was adopted at the age of six weeks by two members of a strict fundamentalist sect called the Peculiar People. He grew up in a household that forbade alcohol, cigarettes, dances, television, conventional medicine and toy guns. Not surprisingly, he developed a fascination for military adventure. As a teenager he devoured CS Forester's Hornblower novels and tried to enlist three times. Poor eyesight put paid to his dream, instead he went to university to read theology. On graduating, he became a teacher, then joined BBC's Nationwide, working his way up the ladder to become head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland, then editor of Thames News. In 1979, his life changed when he fell in love with an American.
"Judy couldn't live here, so I gave up my job and moved to the US. I couldn't get a green card, and for 18 months the only thing I could do was write novels." The result was his first book about 19th century hero, Richard Sharpe, Sharpe's Eagle.
Today with 15 Sharpe adventures behind him and worldwide sales of over 2 million, plus a successful series of novels about the American Civil War, the Starbuck Chronicles, and the first instalment of a new Arthurian trilogy, Bernard Cornwell owns houses in Cape Cod and Florida and two boats. His success, nevertheless, has been accompanies by much hard work. Each Sharpe novel requires weeks of research, often abroad, and takes at least five months to write, working from early in the morning until 6pm. Every year, however, he takes two months off and spends most of his time on his 24 foot Cornish crabber, Royalist.
Bernard and Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing Sharpe. Look out for his new book Death of Kings to be released in 2011.
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