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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.
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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'
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CAPTAIN NATHANIEL STARBUCK FIRST SAW HIS NEW commanding general when the Faulconer Legion forded the Rapidan. Read the first page
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CAPTAIN NATHANIEL STARBUCK FIRST SAW HIS NEW commanding general when the Faulconer Legion forded the Rapidan. Read the first page
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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Cornwell's terribly disappointing Civil War series (Rebel, Copperhead) here continues the trials and triumphs of Nathaniel Starbuck, Northerner turned Confederate rebel. The story here concerns Nate's rise in the ranks, along with the stunning transformation of the drunkard Col. Swindon, while his old best friend Adam finds refuge in a Yankee cavalry unit. The battle sequences-most notably Cedar Mountain and the second Manassas-are typical Cornwell, blood, guts, smoke, terror, and mayhem everywhere. But ultimately the series falls flat because the characters aren't very compelling, and thus we don't really care about them. Some readers seem to find Starbuck a wonderful creation, a troubled soul, struggling with his Northern heritage, God, morality, and soforth. I personally don't get it, Starbuck is a spoiled teenager turned soldier mostly as an act of reflexive rebellion against his father, and there's little to recommend him as a hero-he's certainly no Sharpe.
Another problem is that characters from previous books seem to wax and wane to the point of inconsistency. For example, Nate's archnemesis, Gen. Faulconer all but disappears from this book, as does Nate's Sgt. Harper substitute Sgt. Treadwell, not to mention any of the ladies who figured so prominently in the two previous books. Meanwhile, Nate's father gets a much more prominent role, and new characters are introduced, like the black servant Lucifer, and the nasty Billy Blythe, who is a virtual reincarnation of Sgt. Obediah Hakeswill from Cornwell's Sharpe series. One the whole Cornwell's writing is just a bit sloppier and more careless in this series. For example, in all three books he's had Starbuck spy a young soldier in battle reloading an unfired rifle and stop him, giving him a dead soldier's rifle instead. I mean... come on!
In any event, the series is far below Cornwell's Sharpe series, but I suppose I'll keep reading just to see if it improves.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Another brilliant novel in the Starbuck Chronicles! Bernard Cornwell brings the reader fabulously vivid descriptions of the battles which allow you to taste the action...literally. In this latest instalment we see a few interesting twists involving General Faulconer, Starbuck's own father and a certain Colonel Patrick Lassan of the French Imperial Guard. Ring any bells?
I won't give away too much, except to say that as usual it is a thrilling read from start to finish for all those lovers of Cornwell novels, as well as those with an interest in the American Civil War.
Format:Paperback
this is typical Bernard Cornwell in the same mould as his Sharp novels Which means excellently researched historical war stories .His hero Nathaniel Starbuck is just as heroic a character as Richard Sharp Hopefully he wil continue writing about him
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Slow burner but enticing
In comparison to the Sharpe series and the Alfred series it's a slower burn series of books, but they gradually entice you further into Starbuck's world and intrigue. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. S. Chisholm
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Another series of novels by Bernard Cornwell, this time looking at the American Civil War through the eyes of a Northerner fighting for the South. Read more
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