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A review by dmcke013
Bloody Ground: The Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles: Book Four by Bernard Cornwell
3.0
"Starbuck will march again"
Despite those last 4 words, this is actaully (currently) the final entry in [a:Bernard Cornwell|12542|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1240500522p2/12542.jpg]'s American Civil War Starbuck series: a series, I have to say, that never really gelled for me as much as his more famous Sharpe series, or his more recent Saxon Tales (that started with [b:The Last Kingdom|68527|The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407107780s/68527.jpg|881821].
I've said before, and I'll probably say again, I'm not sure whether that is to do with the setting - I would be interested to hear whether these books are more popular in America than the Sharpe or Last Kingdom series are (both of which have a more European setting).
This novel, however, deals with the decisive battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) which, apparently, was the bloodiest day in US miliatry history, and which occurred after the Confederacy (led by General Robert E Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson) attempted to take the fight to the Northern States, themselves led in this battle by the popinjay general McClellan who, if he had been more decisive, could have ended the war there and then!
Despite those last 4 words, this is actaully (currently) the final entry in [a:Bernard Cornwell|12542|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1240500522p2/12542.jpg]'s American Civil War Starbuck series: a series, I have to say, that never really gelled for me as much as his more famous Sharpe series, or his more recent Saxon Tales (that started with [b:The Last Kingdom|68527|The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407107780s/68527.jpg|881821].
I've said before, and I'll probably say again, I'm not sure whether that is to do with the setting - I would be interested to hear whether these books are more popular in America than the Sharpe or Last Kingdom series are (both of which have a more European setting).
This novel, however, deals with the decisive battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg) which, apparently, was the bloodiest day in US miliatry history, and which occurred after the Confederacy (led by General Robert E Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson) attempted to take the fight to the Northern States, themselves led in this battle by the popinjay general McClellan who, if he had been more decisive, could have ended the war there and then!