Calcutta, 1837. Young Ensign William Avery is tasked by his employers - the East India Company - to track down disgraced agent Xavier Mountstuart, lost to the jungle. Accompanied by dissolute, errant genius Jeremiah Blake, Avery is sure their mission...

data wydania 2002 (data przybliżona) słowa kluczowe wojna secesyjna, Army of Northern Virginia, Stonewall, Thomas J. Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Konfederacja kategoria militaria, wojskowość ISBN 0807129712 liczba stron 274 język angielski

Dissecting the psyche of a nation is a daunting task. It is also doomed to failure. It’s absolutely impossible to make a claim about “the Icelanders” without someone popping up and saying, “Yes, but … but … but … I’m not like that!” This book is stuf...

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