The Starbuck Chronicles: The Complete 4-Book Collection
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series The Starbuck Chronicles, on the American Civil War, now in one complete eBook for the first time.REBELIt is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of America’s civil war. Nathanial Starbuck arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment. He is 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.COPPERHEADNathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War. Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. His journey will take him through the savage prisons of Richmond, across the blood-sodden battlefields of Virginia, and into the deadly high command of the northern army.BATTLE FLAGThe epic battle for control of the Confederate capital continues through the hot summer of 1862. It’s a battle that Captain Nate Starbuck, a Yankee fighting for the Southern cause, has to survive and win.THE BLOODY GROUNDIt is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.
BERNARD CORNWELL
THE COMPLETE STARBUCK CHRONICLES
REBEL
COPPERHEAD
BATTLE FLAG
THE BLOODY GROUND
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Rebel first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993
Copperhead first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1994
Battle Flag first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
The Bloody Ground first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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Source ISBNs: 9780007339471, 9780007339488, 9780007339495, 9780007339501
Ebook Edition © 2013-11 ISBN: 9780007531981
Version: 2017-05-08
Table of Contents
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Title Page (#u7c56255f-4294-5bbc-ad58-ca1851165cee)
Copyright (#ue5855441-bc01-517d-ba9c-2f430bc25897)
Rebel (#u9fbfdc7e-261b-5157-a1bf-91aaf007ca5d)
Copperhead (#u5e9ada02-e0f7-57b6-9962-78c85b56cd93)
Battle Flag (#u59efc3f6-2166-5866-b4fd-ed8de5cb3e83)
The Bloody Ground (#u64ce6465-3391-529a-83b8-ab896c8b32ab)
Keep Reading (#u3b0a43da-77bc-5df1-a918-781b3c93aace)
About the Author (#ud8175f25-de95-53a0-b2be-006316a0062a)
Also by Bernard Cornwell (#uc651e525-44b9-5ffe-87ee-92fee4351d8c)
About the Publisher (#u0d11f139-ae14-59fa-b72f-7720b3e885ce)
BERNARD CORNWELL
The Starbuck Chronicles
Rebel
REBEL
is for Alex and Kathy de Jonge,
who introduced me to the Old Dominion
CONTENTS
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