# Stars and Stripes Forever

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- Book: [Stars and Stripes Forever](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-harrison/stars-and-stripes-forever) ([Stars and Stripes Forever.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-harrison/stars-and-stripes-forever.md))
- Authors: [Harry Harrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/harry-harrison)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-564-4
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 1861 the American Civil War was in its first lethal year. Britain favoured the Confederacy - and the United Kingdom's hostility to the North increased to a flashpoint when a Union warship stopped a British vessel at sea. At that moment, there was a very real risk of war between Britain and the Union. Would Britain have invaded the United States? And if she had - what would have happened? This brilliantly envisaged alternative history shows on a truly epic scale the terrible consequences of such an action. For by the middle of the last century, warfare was already industrialised. Steam-powered ironclad ships at sea and trench warfare, powerful cannon and rapid firing guns on land had revolutionised the business of mass slaughter. Men died in battle on a scale never before seen.