The Starbuck Chronicles · Book 2
Copperhead
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 492
- ISBN-13
- 9780007869985
- Type
- novel
About this book
Copperhead is the second book in Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck Chronicles, published in 1994 at 492 pages, following Rebel and preceding Battle Flag as it tracks the Peninsula Campaign. It continues Nate Starbuck's story as a Northern-born abolitionist preacher's son fighting for the Confederacy, Cornwell applying his usual formula of a compromised protagonist and meticulously researched battle sequences to the American Civil War.
Its place in The Starbuck Chronicles
Copperhead is book 2 in the The Starbuck Chronicles series. It follows Rebel. It is followed by Battle Flag. See the full The Starbuck Chronicles reading order.
The Starbuck Chronicles follows Nate Starbuck, the rebellious son of a fiercely abolitionist Boston preacher, who ends up fighting for the Confederacy almost by accident — arriving in Richmond in 1861 with no Southern sympathies at all, only to be swept into the Confederate army and, over four novels, become a hardened and increasingly capable officer. It's Bernard Cornwell applying his usual formula — a compromised, class-conflicted protagonist thrown into meticulously researched, unglamorous battle sequences …
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007869985