The Devil Soldier
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
“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…
$28.00
April 11, 1995
Caleb Carr is the critically acclaimed author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary, The Legend of Broken, and Surrender, New York. He has taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in upstate New York.
The Alienist (TNT Tie-in Edition)
Caleb Carr
Surrender, New York
Caleb Carr
The Legend of Broken
Caleb Carr
The Lessons of Terror
Caleb Carr
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne Translated by Jordan Stump; Introduction by Caleb Carr
Killing Time
Caleb Carr
The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz
Sun Tzu and Karl von Clausewitz
The Devil Soldier
Caleb Carr
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
A Most Extraordinary Ride
Marc Garneau
The Good Allies
Tim Cook
Great-Uncle Harry
Michael Palin
The Traitor's Daughter
Roxana Spicer
Paris '44
Patrick Bishop
The War We Won Apart
Nahlah Ayed
The Peace
Romeo Dallaire
Outspoken
Sima Samar with Sally Armstrong
By the Ghost Light
R.H. Thomson
Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
Tim Cook
Prisoners of the Castle
Ben Macintyre
Mussolini's Daughter
Caroline Moorehead
Operation Jubilee
Patrick Bishop
The Devil's Trick
John Boyko
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Ai Weiwei; Translated by Allan H. Barr
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
Madhur Anand
North Korea Journal
Michael Palin
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha
The Monk of Mokha
Dave Eggers
For the Glory
Duncan Hamilton
Children of Paradise
Laura Secor
And Home Was Kariakoo
M.G. Vassanji
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang
Lives of the Family
Denise Chong
From the Ruins of Empire
Pankaj Mishra
The Beautiful and the Damned
Siddhartha Deb