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In a warfare room in Washington, William Tecumseh Sherman and Standard Robert E. Lee huddle jointly and plan their next, joint military services operation. Within the jungles of Mexico, Ulysses S. Give is locked in brutal fight with the best of the British Army. And in the heart and soul of the new North american South a fragile serenity is threatened... Within the dazzling alternate background of Harry Harrison, this is the world as it stands in 1863. Just three years before, a titanic Civil Battle loomed in the us. But an occurrence involving a British dispatch and two Confederate spies altered everything. As Abraham Lincoln defied Britain's Lord Palmerston, tensions between the two countries boiled over and Her Majesty's Navy unleashed an assault on American garden soil aimed at bolstering the Confederate cause. The results were catastrophic. A stunned North and South reserve their distinctions and a fresh kind of warfare erupted, with Us citizens fighting side by side against the British on two fronts: in the South and on the Canadian boundary. Now, Britain has been defeated and America is attempting to keep its union jointly until another blow is struck. It comes from Mexico, where elite units of Her Majesty's Army including the famous Gurkha fighters are massing for a possible assault through Texas. In to the gauntlet, Lincoln delivers his chosen angel of fatality, General Grant. But the weary president is aware of that two ages of British electricity will not be ended with an individual struggle. So his top military, including Lee and Sherman, plan the most daring naval invasion ever before launched: an assault on English garden soil itself. And in a secret that must definitely be protected by an underground army of spies and top secret agencies, the U.S. will invade the Emerald Isle to set the Irish free at last. Filled with real character types on both attributes of the turmoil, Celebrities and Stripes in Peril is the new masterwork in one of our own most provocative writers.
