In STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER, Harry Harrison began the story of the war that never was, but might so easily have happened: the war of the 1860s between the United States of America and the British Empire. It began with an ill-considered seizure of a British ship, escalated with an ill-considered letter to Abraham Lincoln, and continued with an ill-starred invasion of the territory of the USA by an incensed British government. The first modern war - with iron-clad ships, rapid-firing guns, trenches, mass armies and massive casualties, was taking place, not between the industrial northern states and the agricultural southern ones, but between the two great English-speaking nations. Who happened also to be the two most powerful nations on the planet. Harry Harrison has created an utterly believable alternate world with an enormous cast of characters both historical and fictional, locked in a war that could have changed our world.
- ISBN10 034068920X
- ISBN13 9780340689202
- Publish Date 21 September 2000 (first published 6 April 2000)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 19 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Imprint New English Library Ltd
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 512
- Language English