Caleb Carr
The Devil Soldier
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
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So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.-Los Angeles TimesWith the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees.Praise for The Devil SoldierIf ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Ca…
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So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.-Los Angeles TimesWith the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees.Praise for The Devil SoldierIf ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr's The Devil Soldier is it.-Chicago TribuneGood, thorough, scholarly but absorbing.-Edward Rice, author of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-76552-9
- EAN: 9780307765529
- Produktnummer: 15735547
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'649 KB
- Abbildungen: PHOTOGRAPH; MAP
Über den Autor
Caleb Carr is the critically acclaimed author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary, The Legend of Broken, and Surrender, New York. He has taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in upstate New York.
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