The first book in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War.It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America’s civil war.Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer.Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy fighting for the southern cause. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking violence to follow in the war which broke America in two.
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Bernard Cornwell. Rebel
BERNARD CORNWELL. The Starbuck Chronicles. Rebel
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CONTENTS
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
HISTORICAL NOTE
About the Author
Also by Bernard Cornwell
By Bernard Cornwell and Susannah Kells
THE SHARPE SERIES (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)
About the Publisher
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is for Alex and Kathy de Jonge,
who introduced me to the Old Dominion
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Men seized Starbuck, released his bonds and hurried him toward the wagon. The tanner helped them, still striking and kicking at the helpless Starbuck, spitting his hatred and taunting him, anticipating the humiliation of Elial Starbuck’s whelp. Pearce had crammed the dentist’s top hat onto its owner’s grotesque, tar-thick, feathered head. The dentist was shaking, sobbing silently.
