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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100679761284

ISBN-139780679761280

eBay Product ID (ePID)779164

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Book TitleDevil Soldier : the American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Asia / China, Military

Publication Year1995

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorCaleb Carr

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-045844

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Imagine an American version of Lawrence of Arabia at large in nineteenth-century China, add the devil-may-care exploits of Indiana Jones and the high moral purpose of Robin hood, and you'll have a rough idea of what the adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward was really like. His story, recounted by Caleb Carr in The Devil Soldier with authority and high spirits, is so marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is." -- Los Angeles Times "If ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr's The Devil Soldier is it." -- Chicago Tribune "Good, thorough, scholarly but absorbing." --Edward Rice, author of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal951/.034/092 B

Synopsis"So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is."-- Los Angeles Times With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. Praise for The Devil Soldier "If ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr's The Devil Soldier is it." -- Chicago Tribune "Good, thorough, scholarly but absorbing." --Edward Rice, author of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, "So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is."- Los Angeles Times With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. The Devil Soldier is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. Praise for The Devil Soldier "If ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr's The Devil Soldier is it." - Chicago Tribune "Good, thorough, scholarly but absorbing." -Edward Rice, author of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton

LC Classification NumberDS759.35.W37C37 1992

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by finatt_0
Jul 19, 2018
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This title I started to read as a library book about 20 years ago. I am saving it to read soon.
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