The third volume of the "Seafort Saga". Assigned to Hope Nation, Captain Nicholas Seafort is appointed liason to the wealthy planters of the colony planet. But, reeling from a savage alien attack, the UN space flotilla flees homeward, and the colonists seize their moment to rebel.

When an experiment goes wrong, Gwendolen Ingolfsson is hurled into a parallel Earth filled with billions of unaltered, antique humans. Her duty is to pave the way for an invasion force, to increase the power of the genetically-engineered Draka.

In 1881, a generation after the South won the Civil War, the peace is shattered. Furious over the annexation of American territory, the United States declares total war against the Confederacy. In this second American Civil War the times, stake and battle lines have changed - and so has history.

The first in Harry Turtledove's massive new First World War series...

The Great Plague destroyed Europe. Now the world's a different place ! From the award-winning author of the Mars trilogy, 'the ultimate in future history' (Daily Mail), comes the most ambitious alternate history novel ever written.