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The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell

Description: ISBN 0006496660 / Author: Bernard Cornwell / Genre: Fiction / United States of America. Nathaniel Starbuck, the northern preacher's son ... more

The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell ... who fights for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion, a despised unit of shriekers and cowards. His enemies expect the appointment to be his downfall. To prove them wrong, Starbuck must lead the ramshackle unit against thenorthern 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.

Newest Review: ... enemies have conspired to send him back south to retrain a battalion nicknamed the Yellowlegs due to their penchant for ... more

... running from battle. Starbuck, along with his friend Lucifer, must fight against internal corruption, as well as the Northern forces, if they are to reach what was to become one of the bloodiest battles of the war. As the title of this book suggests ‘The Bloody Ground’ is a grisly book. Cornwell is well known for filling his novels with battle scenes that include gore in vivid detail. However, this is probably his most intense to date as the whole second half of the book narrates the most tragic battle of the war. In ...more

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The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell: Starbucky, Captain Starbucky O'Hare (820 words)
by - written on 10/05/07 (Very useful, 93 readings)
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War is a morale sapping thing. The longer it goes on for the more likely people are going to become against it. This has happened in Iraq as people now realise that it might take more than a couple of weeks to sort out the region. The extension of war is not a new thing as any historian will tell you. Contemporaries of the period thought that WW1 would be over by Christmas – it was, just Christmas 4 years later. These extended wars have the habit of ripping countries apart and this is no better seen in a civil war. The American Civil War went on for longer than many thought and many people died, not for slavery, but for their pride filled ideals. The ‘Starbuck ... Read the complete review