How Few Remain - Softcover

Harry Turtledove

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ISBN 10: 0340715413 ISBN 13: 9780340715413

Publisher: New English Library, 1998

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A generation after the South won the first American civil War, America writhes once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declares total war against the Confederate States. And so, in 1881, the frgile peace is shattered. But this is a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the Blue and the Grey battle not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw - and evne the British Redcoat. For along with France, britain enters the fray on the Confederate side. 'The wizard of If.' Chicago Sun-Times 'The standard-bearer for alternate history.' USA Today

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I was on the set of the Babylon 5 TV series, and asked to be introduced to series star Bruce Boxleitner. You see, I know one of his hidden pleasures. When I met Bruce, I noted that I was to have dinner that evening with Harry Turtledove.

Bruce asked me to apologize to Harry, for having missed a recent book signing (for HOW FEW REMAIN). Bruce explained that he'd been in Vancouver, where his wife was filming a television movie, and hadn't been able to make it to the store where Harry was to appear. However, Bruce was deep into HFR, and was loving every page. He enthused over what Harry had done with Stonewall Jackson, with Mark Twain, with George Armstrong Custer. He wouldn't stop . . . as the makeup person finished and he walked off toward dress rehearsal, alongside his fellow actors, he turned and shouted back, "And I love what he's done with Lincoln!"

There's a man who knows what he likes. I'm almost afraid to ask what he thinks of THE GREAT WAR.
--Steve Saffel, Senior Editor

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ter of alternate history comes an epic of the Second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. Twenty years after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America. And so, in 1883, the fragile peace was shattered.

But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other, but the Apache, the outlaw, and even the redcoat. Along with France, England entered the fray on the side of the South, with blockades and invasions from Canada.

Out of this tragic struggle emerged figures great and small. The disgraced Abraham Lincoln crisscrossed the nation championing socialist ideals. Confederate cavalry leader Jeb Stuart sought to prevent wholesale slaughter in the desert Southwest, while cocky young Theodore Roosevelt and stodgy Ge

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