Title: The devil soldier
First published: 1992
Description: A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. Carr's skills as historian and storyteller come to the fore in this thrilling account of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees.
Subjects: American Personal narratives, History, Personal narratives, American, China, history, taiping rebellion, 1850-1864, Soldiers of fortune, Taiping Rebellion, Military biography, China, history, Americans, foreign countries, Fiction, historical, general, China, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Biographie, Histoire, Biographies
Places: China
People: Frederick Townsend Ward (1831-1862), Frederick Townsend Ward
Time periods: Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864, 1831-1862
LC classification: DS759.35.W37 C37 1992