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The Devil Soldier
Caleb Carr
其他書名
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2012-11-28
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Military
History / Asia / China
History / Wars & Conflicts / General
ISBN
0307765520
9780307765529
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=emcg3O0FzFYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“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