From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, comes
the fourth installment in The Starbuck Chronicles, an exciting
novel which vividly captures the horror of the battle field.
It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States
of America.
Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher's son fighting for the rebel South,
is given command of a punishment battalion - a despised unit of shirkers
and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must
lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the
bloodiest of the Civil War.