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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.
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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, BiographiesPlaces
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Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
2012, Penguin Random House
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1299176046 9781299176041
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Le Diable blanc : Un aventurier américain devenu mandarin en Chine
February 7, 2002, Pocket
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2266112902 9782266112901
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Diana-Taschenbücher, Nr.17, Der vergessene Held
February 1, 1999, Heyne
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The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
April 11, 1995, Random House
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0679761284 9780679761280
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The devil soldier: the American soldier of fortune who became god in China
1992, Random House
in English
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The devil soldier: the story of Frederick Townsend Ward
1992, Random House
in English
0679411143 9780679411147
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The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward
August 1991, Grove/Atlantic, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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0871134624 9780871134622
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"On May 2, 1860, the city of Nanking, China-nestled between a wide bend in the Yangtze River and a commanding promontory called Purple Mountain-was alive with celebration."
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