Book description
The Stars and Stripes trilogy is 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.
In the stunning conclusion to this series, the Irish become involved
and a most surprising ending is the culmination of the ill-fated war.
Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012)
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925.
He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the
Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the
Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto,
the most popular of the constructed international languages, which
appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over
half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of
overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult
film Soylent Green. He died in 2012.
