Rebel

Rebel
Bernard Cornwell

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.

BERNARD CORNWELL

The Starbuck Chronicles

Rebel

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1993

Map © John Gilkes 2013

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Source ISBN: 9780007497966

Ebook Edition © September 2013 ISBN: 9780007339471

Version: 2017-05-08

REBEL

is for Alex and Kathy de Jonge,

who introduced me to the Old Dominion

CONTENTS

Cover (#u61bc7ebd-1589-5059-b521-8741e50bad46)

Title Page (#u483f4d71-36f3-5225-a90e-598ddb270cac)

Copyright (#ua5f8beb1-16ad-540e-adbb-4a4949047da6)

Dedication (#u1c688e13-87d6-5ce3-a9bc-562f1c3bec6e)

Map (#u44615977-63a9-5b7c-b525-a27638bbf08f)

Part One (#u6345ea6b-d6b0-5520-a451-5c4843610a52)

Chapter One (#u2a216ef4-c306-5caf-be52-e2e4330d19e4)

Chapter Two (#ud4c66314-af66-5a22-8c2e-bcaded4dd1f8)

Chapter Three (#ub0032595-ca24-534f-93a1-48ab13908fc5)

Chapter Four (#ue58c6dc9-186d-5613-a91b-02ca73da7c0d)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Historical Note (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Bernard Cornwell (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)