by Caleb Carr · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466633192
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«El soldado del diablo» is the historical novel by Caleb Carr, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
Set in 19th-century China, the novel follows Frederick Townsend Ward, an American adventurer who becomes a military leader in the service of the emperor during the Taiping Rebellion, one of the bloodiest civil wars in history. Caleb Carr combines his craft as historian and narrator to reconstruct the campaigns and the figure of a soldier of fortune who rose to become a mandarin.
Translation by Mª Eugenia Ciocchini from the original «The Devil Soldier». Pocket edition from the Byblos collection, with 480 pages.
Caleb Carr was an American military historian and author. Carr was the second of three sons born to Lucien Carr and Francesca Von Hartz.
