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The first quantity in an astonishing trilogy of substitute history.In this particular, the first level of renowned creator and historian Peter G. Tsouras's substitute background trilogy, Great Britain's support for the Confederacy can take it to the brink of conflict with the Union. The get away from of any British-built Confederate ironclad finally ignites the heap of combustible animosities and nationwide interests. When the US Navy seizes it in English waters, the ensuing fight spirals into all-out conflict. Napoleon III eagerly joins the English and declares conflict on the United States. On the other hand, treason uncoils in the North as the antiwar Democrats, known as Copperheads, storyline to overthrow the US government and take the Midwest in to the Confederacy.Britannia's Fist brilliantly identifies not just a war of heart stroke and counterstroke but one where new systems - repeating weapons, observation balloons, developments in naval ordnance and armament - become essential factors in the struggle of the young country against the Old World's empires. For one of the fantastic missed tales of the Civil Warfare had not been the move forward of armed service technology but its impediment by incompetence, disorganization, and in some serious conditions outright refusal to contemplate anything innovative. Britannia's Fist is the engaging story of powerful historical personalities who get together as the Union goes into total conflict mobilization in the attack because of its life.
