by Caleb Carr · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440693075
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«El Soldado del Diablo» is the historical novel by Caleb Carr, published by Ediciones B in hardback (402 pages, in Spanish).
The novel reconstructs the life of Frederick Townsend Ward, an American adventurer who fought in South America and Crimea before arriving in Shanghai in 1859. There he served imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion, received the title of mandarin, and won victories for the emperor in a country divided between tradition and Western pressure.
Caleb Carr is also the author of El Alienista; this Spanish edition appeared in 2001 and corresponds to the 1992 English original, The Devil Soldier.
Aimed at adult readers interested in the history of China, biographies of real adventurers, and nineteenth-century historical fiction.
Caleb Carr was an American military historian and author. Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.
