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Once too often in the War Between the States, Great Britains support for the Confederacy takes it to the brink of war with the Union. The escape of a British-built Confederate ironclad finally ignites the heap of combustible animosities and national interests. When the U.S. Navy seizes it in British waters, the ensuing battle spirals into all-out war. Napoleon III eagerly joins the British and declares war on the United States. Meanwhile, treason uncoils in the North as the anti-war Democrats, known as Copperheads, plot to overthrow the U.S. government and take the Midwest into the Confederacy. Britannias fist strikes quickly and hard. Along with the Canadians, the British invade New York and Maine, and the Royal Navy strikes at the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. The clash at Charleston is historys first great naval battle between ironclads. Meanwhile, a French army marches into Texas from Mexico, and the French Navy attacks the Gulf coast. In the Midwest, the Copperheads rise in revolt to liberate Confederate POWs and arm them with stockpiled weapons. Never has the Republic been in such peril. Britannias Fist brilliantly describes not just a war of stroke and counterstroke but one in which new technologiesrepeating weapons, observation balloons, advances in naval ordnance and armamentbecome vital factors in the struggle of the young country against the Old Worlds empires. For one of the great missed stories of the Civil War was not the advance of military technology but its impediment by incompetence, disorganization, and in some serious cases outright refusal to contemplate anything innovative. This is also a war in which the Union finds a combat multiplier when it organizes historys first national-level intelligence effort. Britannias Fist is the compelling story of powerful historical personalities who come together as the Union goes into total war mobilization in the fight for its life.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As the previous reviewer says, another example of American authors going down the same ludicrous route (thats ROOT not ROWT !) of American success at every turn (they can't do that NOW - armed to the teeth for God's sake !)
This is just as awful and ill-thought out as Harry Harrison's abysmal anti-British dross "Stars and Stripes in peril" series
I gave up little more than two-thirds through and would have binned the book if it wasn't a loan !
This is just as awful and ill-thought out as Harry Harrison's abysmal anti-British dross "Stars and Stripes in peril" series
I gave up little more than two-thirds through and would have binned the book if it wasn't a loan !
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book with high hopes as Peter Tsouras is a writer who has dabbled in alternate history before with impressive results. But, once again, an American author has written a book dealing with what might have happened if Britain had intervened in the American Civil War in which the USA does everything right and the British do everything wrong.
Every major engagement in the book ends in victory for the USA's forces on land and sea.
This book throws up two questions.
Firstly, why did the author call the book "Britannia's Fist" given that
the Royal Navy is so easily beaten by the plucky Americans. ( A one -legged American soldier attacks a British ship single-handedly!)
Secondly, if the USA was such a potent force in 1863( the year the book begins in), then why did the American Civil War last so long?
There will be at least another book in this series but I won't be buying it.
Every major engagement in the book ends in victory for the USA's forces on land and sea.
This book throws up two questions.
Firstly, why did the author call the book "Britannia's Fist" given that
the Royal Navy is so easily beaten by the plucky Americans. ( A one -legged American soldier attacks a British ship single-handedly!)
Secondly, if the USA was such a potent force in 1863( the year the book begins in), then why did the American Civil War last so long?
There will be at least another book in this series but I won't be buying it.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I agree compleatly with both earlier critics. A complete waste of time and money. The only redeeming feture (so far) is that at least old Jefferson Davies does NOT ride with clan. Well, not yet anyway. DO NOT BUY!!
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Only one Star
Only gave this on star because the author spelt his name right
Awful story well thought out but total rubbish
If we British are such a poor Military Nation how come... Read more
Awful story well thought out but total rubbish
If we British are such a poor Military Nation how come... Read more
Published 2 months ago by CVH
Better than the reviews make out.
I read this book after having read through the almost entirely negative reviews and was expecting dross the like of "Stars and Stripes Forever", however I was pleasantly surprised,... Read more
Published 21 months ago by M. J. Nash
Flawed and biased nonsense
I deeply regret buying this novel, what a waste of time and money.
This might be an alternative history book but it has some
connection to the real world! Read more
This might be an alternative history book but it has some
connection to the real world! Read more
Published 22 months ago by SJ SMART
The most likely imagined scenario yet...
Peter Tsouras has delivered the most obviously well-researched and believable scenario yet of one of history's great What-Ifs? Read more
Published 22 months ago by Historian
Boring
Yet another dull novel where plucky freedom-loving Americans easily defeat stupid, oppresive British forces. Boring, improbable and badly written - best avoided.
Published on 6 July 2009 by Guy Roberts
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