Author(s): Bernard Cornwell

Contemporary Fiction

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