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  1. Apr 11, 1995 · 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.”

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  2. Jan 1, 1992 · Caleb Carr. 3.57. 650 ratings65 reviews. The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China... 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 ...

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  3. Included below is a summary of Caleb Carr's second non-fiction work, The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China, which was published by Random House in 1991. Selected critical reception has also been included. For summaries and selected critical reception of Caleb Carr's other fiction and non-fiction works, please

  4. Aug 27, 1991 · From novelist-turned-historian Carr (Casing the Promised Land, 1979), a thorough but plodding biography of American soldier-of- fortune Frederick Townsend Ward. During the 1860's, Ward's brief but meteoric career in the service of the Chinese emperor gave him exceptional influence and status in a society largely closed to foreigners. Ward first appears as a capable mate on American clipper ...

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  5. 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 ...

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  6. Apr 11, 1995 · 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 ...

  7. 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