Stars & Stripes Forever

In this epic of alternate history - a powerful blend of fact, fiction, and strategic possibilities - Harry Harrison poses a provocative what if scenario that would have changed the outcome of the U.S. Civil War - and the course of history.
On November 8, 1861, in the Bahama Channel close to Cuba, a U.S. navy warship stopped a British packet, boarded her, and seized two Confederate emissaries on their way to England to seek backing for their cause. England responded with rage...and with calls for a war of vengeance. The looming crisis was defused by the peace-minded Prince Albert.
But what if fate had intervened? Imagine how his absence during this critical moment might have changed everything. For lacking Albert's calm voice of reason, Britain now seizes the opportunity to attack and conquer a crippled, war-torn America.
Ulysses S. Grant is poised for an attack that could smash open the South's defenses. In Washington, Abraham Lincoln sees a first glimmer of hope that this bloody war might soon end. But then disaster strikes: English troops have invaded from Canada.
Stars and Stripes Forever asks - and then fascinatingly answers - a central question: Could a divided, bloodied America have defeated England, or would the United States have ceased to exist for all time?