01228nam a2200169Ia 4500 20250728154342.0 250728s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780679761280 951.034092 CAR Carr, Caleb The Devil Soldier Random House 1995 399 pages “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 Biography & Autobiography ENGLISH 577742 577742 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-07-28 0 951.034092 CAR 421039 2025-07-28 15:43:42 2025-07-28 ENGLISH