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  • Bayonets, Balloons, and Ironclads

  • Britain and France Take Sides with the South
  • By: Peter G. Tsouras
  • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
  • Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Bayonets, Balloons, and Ironclads

By: Peter G. Tsouras
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Summary

This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed differently. What if other countries had become involved in America's Civil War? Historian Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series.

The winter of 1863 lowered a white curtain on the desperate struggle for North America. The United States and Great Britain fought each other to a bitter draw. On both sides of the Atlantic, the forges of battle glowed as they poured out new technologies of war. British and French aid transformed the ragged Confederate armies and filled them with new confidence. Both sides strained to be ready for the coming campaign season. Now both sides seek to anticipate each other. The British strike suddenly at Hooker's strung-out army in winter quarters in upstate New York in a brutal, swirling, late battle across frozen fields and streams. Besieged Portland shudders against relentless assault. The French attack Fort Hudson on the Mississippi. At Lincoln's direction,two great raids are launched at the United Kingdom itself as Russia enters the war on the side of the Union to raid the Irish Sea. These are only preliminaries to the great gathering of modernized armies and ironclad fleets, and with them are deadly submersibles and balloons.

Battles rage from Maine to Northern Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, down to steamy Louisiana. And far away across the sea, Dublin stands siege as Russia simultaneously eyes Constantinople. For Americans (blue and gray), Britons, Irish, Frenchmen, and Russians, the summer of 1864 is the crescendo battle of destinies and dreams.

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©2015 Peter G. Tsouras (P)2015 Audible Inc.
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USA vs Empire

I’ve read all the books in the Britannia’s fist series and I have enjoyed each one.
There is lots of action with all sides giving it their all some people have said it’s far fetched and that some of the weapons used like the airships could never have happened all that some of the events could never have happened.
But as story it is just great fun and that’s all I want from a book and if that’s what you want you will like this book.

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