Souvenir Press, London, 1980.  ISBN 0-285-62453-9.  Hard cover, 223 pages.  Very good; brown boards with silver lettering on spine, spine ends bumped; binding sound.  Dust jacket with price intact has light cover wear, some light creases, a bit of wear at corners and spine ends.  Light soil and age spotting on outer page block; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘A group of robust young field slaves ambushes a small Yankee packtrain carrying muskets through the northern Louisiana wilderness.  A black leader emerges from this backwoods encounter, a young slave called Tim who, by harbouring firearms, subsequently risks the safety of his devoted parents who enjoy the generosity of Peter Abdee – the master of both Greenleaf and Dragonard plantations.  Peter Abdee is unaware that his slaves have hidden muskets and ammunition on his property, concerning himself at the outset of the Civil War with the irony of owning slaves in the South when his sympathies are secretly in agreement with the North.’ (from front flap)