This pacy novel is an ingenious contribution to the burgeoning genre of "what if?" history. - Mail on Sunday on STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER Plausible as well as highly entertaining. Harrison does a masterful job of demonstrating how this became the first modern war, and changed forever the way nations conducted their affairs. - Science Fiction Chronicle on STARS AND STRIPES Verve and pace carry it through. - Time Out on STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER The tight writing and grasp of the period s technology is impressive. - Yorkshire Post on STARS AND STRIPES One of science fiction s most prolific and accomplished craftsmen. - New York Times Book Review
In STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER, Harry Harrison began the story of the war that never was, but might so easily have happened: the war of the 1860s between the United States of America and the British Empire. It began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an ill-considered letter to Abraham Lincoln, and continued with an ill-starred invasion of the territory of the USA by an incensed British government. The first modern war - with iron-clad ships, rapid-firing guns, trenches, mass armies and massive casualties, was taking place, not between the industrial northern states and the agricultural southern ones, but between the two great English-speaking nations. Who happened also to be the two most powerful nations on the planet. Harry Harrison has created an utterly believable alternate world with an enormous cast of characters both historical and fictional, locked in a war that could have changed our world.
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Librería: Goldstone Books, Llandybie, Reino Unido
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Paperback. Condición: Good. Reprint; First Printing. Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside, most of front endpaper missing. ; Library binding with stiffened covers. ; The Stars and Stripes Trilogy; Vol. 2; 325 pages; A great alternative history series, wherein the British Empire decides to intervene in the American Civil War with disasterous consequences. With North and South united, and having repulsed the British invaders, an uneasy truce is broken when the Americans discover the British are building a secret highway across the narrowest part of Mexico. Mass Market PB. Nº de ref. del artículo: 18643
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Librería: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. 2000. Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Nº de ref. del artículo: KSG0021617
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Librería: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
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Librería: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nueva Zelanda
Paperback. Condición: Very good. This title follows a what if path of the British Empire pitted against her American colonies. The second title in the trilogy, only a brilliant plan by General Robert E. Lee enables the USA to attack the British forces where they least expect it and broaden the war for independence. 330 pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1567933
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Librería: Reading Habit, Buttaba, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Small Paperback. Condición: Good. First Thus. Small paperback, first thus, 182gms, 325 pages. This is the second book in the Stars and Stripes series. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Nº de ref. del artículo: SCIFIC1095
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Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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