How long does it take to read The Bloody Ground?
Bernard Cornwell, Grover Gardner narrator
The Bloody Ground by Bernard Cornwell, Grover Gardner narrator takes about 7 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Starbuck Chronicles
Previous: Battle Flag
About 7 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 409 pages, about 112,475 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this fourth, final, and rousing installment of Nathaniel Starbuck's Civil War adventures, Nate is given command of a punishment battalion: a motley collection of cowards, thieves, deserters, and murderers. Setting off to Join General Robert E. Lee's army, Starbuck's men reach Harper's Ferry in time to take part in Stonewall Jackson's capture of the Union garrison. From there, the regiment moves on to the legendary horror of Sharpsburg, beside the Antietam Creek, forever to be remembered as the bloodiest single day of the war. There, Starbuck and his troop will have their courage and commitment tested as never before.
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