Caleb Carr -- Out of Print Books

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America Invulnerable : The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars
James Chace, Caleb Carr / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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America Invulnerable : The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars
James Chace, Caleb Carr / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Casing the Promised Land
Caleb Carr / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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The Devil Soldier : The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward
Caleb Carr / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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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 ships engaging in the brisk China trade, with little other than his boldness to suggest the generalissimo of the Ch'ing dynasty he was to become in its protracted struggle against the Taiping Rebellion (1851...

The Devil Soldier : The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward
Caleb Carr / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
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 ships engaging in the brisk China trade, with little other than his boldness to suggest the generalissimo of the Ch'ing dynasty he was to become in its protracted struggle against the Taiping Rebellion (1851...

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