BERNARD CORNWELL

The Bloody Ground

HarperCollinsPublishers

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This paperback edition 1997 3 5 7 9 8 6 4

First published in Great Britain 1996

Copyright © Bernard Cornwell 1996

The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

ISBN 0 00 649666 0

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For

Zachary Arnold, may he never know the horrors of war