Stars and Stripes in Peril: v. 2 (Stars & Stripes) - Tapa dura

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.