Battle Flag :: Book 3 - Softcover

Cornwell, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006479022 ISBN 13: 9780006479024

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

Third volume in the Starbuck Chronicles. The battle for control of Richmond, the Confederate capital, continues through the hot summer of 1862.

Captain Nate Starbuck, yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win with his ragged Company in the bitter struggle not only against the formidable Northern army but equally in opposition to his own superiors who would like nothing better than to see Nate Starbuck dead and dishonoured.

Starbuck’s courage is tested to the limit in his desperate manoeuvres to retrieve his own and the Legion’s honour in this the thrid narrative of Bernard Cornwell’s sweeping epic of the American Civil War.

About this title

Review:

Praise for BATTLE FLAG:

‘A humdinger of a blood-and-guts battle’ Daily Mail

‘Admirably catches the chaotic and bloody nature of the action . . . it’s a state-of-the-art swashbuckler’ Sunday Times

Cornwell unerringly hits his form . . . battle-scenes of exceptional grandeur pictured in brisk, pungent prose’ Mail on Sunday

Praise for Bernard Cornwell:

‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive.’ George R.R. Martin

From the Back Cover:

Captain Nathaniel Starbuck has survived the early battles of the Civil War, but his northern breeding still makes him an object of suspicion to many of his southern comrades, and his enmity with his regiment's founder, General Washington Faulconer, makes his position even harder.

When Faulconer attempts to discipline his opponents, he sets in train events that will culminate in a savage battle – and Starbuck, his friends and his enemies will find themselves once more staring death in the face.

A superb story of courage, friendship and betrayal, 'Battle Flag' is the third volume in Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck Chronicles.

"Cornwell unerringly hits his form...battle-scenes of exceptional grandeur pictured in brisk, pungent prose"
DAVID HUGHES, 'Mail on Sunday'

"Admirable catches the chaotic and bloody nature of the action...It's a State-of-the-art Shawbuckler"
SUNDAY TIMES

"A Humdinger of a bloods-and-guts battle"
DAILY MAIL

"Cornwell's descriptions...have a narrative verve excitement which sweep the reader along behind Jackson and Lee"
T. J. BINYON, 'Standard'

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0006479022
• ISBN 13: 9780006479024
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 465