Stars & Stripes Triumphant (Stars and Stripes, No. 3) - Softcover

Harrison, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345409388 ISBN 13: 9780345409386

Publisher: Del Rey, 2003

Synopsis

In England, Irish-born citizens are being herded into prison camps. On the high seas, a furious British Navy is seizing American cargo ships bound for Europe. And on the Thames, a new weapon of unparalleled destructive force is sailing toward an impregnable city–spearheaded by a daring act of espionage. For U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, Britain’s Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston, and a loyal opposition, a day of reckoning is at hand . . . and so is history’s most astounding battle.

Harry Harrison’s series of alternate history, based on the U.S. Civil War, stands as a provocative work of imagination, drama, and brilliant historical insight. Now in the thrilling finale, Harrison tells a stunning, action-packed story of America’s rapidly growing military might being locked, loaded, and aimed at the heart of England itself.

For the two countries that share a language and a heritage, the conflict began at the dawn of the U.S. Civil War. Just as America was about to tear itself to pieces, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. packet ship. In retaliation, the Confederate States rejoined the Union and took up arms against England. Repulsing a British invasion, and defeating her majesty’s army first in Canada, then in Mexico, then in Ireland, American pride and power swelled. Britain, like a wounded lion, howled in shame and anger. Now, Queen Victoria’s empire is more dangerous than ever before, turning against the Irish on her own soil, flexing her naval might, and all but forcing a weary President Lincoln to authorize the next step in a headlong journey toward war.

A tale of daring and strategy, Stars and Stripes Triumphant explores how arrogance turns superpowers into victims, how regional conflicts can explode into world wars, and how the personalities of a few men and women can change the course of history itself–for better or for worse.
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From the Back Cover

“VERY PATRIOTIC READING . . . STARS AND STRIPES TRIUMPHANT FORGES ITS OWN DISTINCTIVE PATH.”
–Locus

“This insightful series shows how the elements of modern warfare could have combined much earlier, and just how little the U.S. and the U.K. had in common in the 1860s.”
–Publishers Weekly

“THE TRILOGY . . . IS CLEVER AND ENTERTAINING.”
–Science Fiction Chronicle


PRAISE FOR HARRY HARRISON

“One of science fiction’s most prolific and accomplished craftsmen.”
The New York Times Book Review

Stars and Stripes Forever
Chosen by Science Fiction Chronicle
as One of the Best SF Novels of the Year

“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

“A well-crafted alternate history epic.”
Science Fiction Age
Stars and Stripes in Peril

“Lovers of novels of alternate history hold Harry Harrison in high regard and [this book] can only enhance that esteem.”
–Abilene Reporter-News

About the Author

Winner of the Nebula Award, the Prix Jules Verne, and the Premio Italia, Harry Harrison is famous for many works of speculative literature, including the Stars and Stripes trilogy–of which the first two books are Star and Stripes Forever and Stars and Stripes in Peril–The Stainless Steel Rat series, Make Room! Make Room! (the basis for the movie Soylent Green), and the West of Eden trilogy. He lives in Ireland.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345409388
• ISBN 13: 9780345409386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304