Book description
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.
Bernard Cornwell was born in London, raised in Essex, and now lives
mainly in the USA with his wife. In addition to the hugely successful
Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell is the author of the Starbuck
Chronicles, the Warlord trilogy, the Grail Quest series, the Alfred
series and standalone battle books Azincourt and The Fort.
