Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.

Author Sebastian Barry Published by Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571277049 EAN 9780571277049 Bic Code Cover Paperback