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Rebel - Bernard Cornwell

Description: ISBN 0006179207 / Author: Bernard Cornwell / Genre: Fiction / Nathaniel Starbuck is a rebel, a young Yankee fighting for the South ... more

Rebel - Bernard Cornwell ... against the North in the American Civil War. It is the summer of 1861 when Nate arrives in Richmond, Virginia, suddenly to be rescued from a lynch mob by Washington Faulconer who is raising his own Legion in the interests of the Confederacy. Personal and political loyalties are tested to the limit, and Nate quickly learns to fight in his own interests and those of his adopted country and friends while the United States of America tears itself violently, unforgivingly apart in the first bloody battles of the Civil War.

Newest Review: ... little love interest and confrontation between Starbuck and his comrades, but I couldn't help but feel that the whole book ... more

... was a little familiar, it was almost as if I had read it before. As with the Sharpe series, Cornwell seems to be totally in his element when writing about an officer who is neither liked nor fully accepted by the majority of his messmates. While there are a few differences between the character and circumstances of Starbuck and Sharpe, they are very similar. It's almost as if Cornwell has simply transplanted Sharpe into the American civil war. Where Sharpe was not accepted because he wasn't born an officer, Starbuck is...more

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Rebel - Bernard Cornwell: North Vs South or should that be North Vs North (817 words)
by - written on 07/12/06 (Very useful, 420 readings)
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I guess I was first drawn to Bernard Cornwell's novels by watching the hugely popular series of television films staring Sean Bean as Sharpe. As I'd enjoyed watching the series and enjoy reading I guessed (correctly as it happens) that I would find the books an enjoyable way of spending a few hours. Having read the complete Sharpe series I decided to move onto the Starbuck Chronicles of which this, Rebel, is the first of four books. As the conflict between the Northern and Southern states explodes into the American Civil War, the son of Northern preacher and abolitionist Elial Starbuck finds himself in the dangerous position of being the hands of the Southern ... Read the complete review