How Few Remain [Paperback]

From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. . . .

1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more in the bloody throes of battle. Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America in 1881.

But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English. As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal. In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed--and so would history. . .Harry Turtledoveis the award-winning author of the alternate-history worksThe Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South,andHow Few Remain(winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books (Bombs Away, Fallout,andArmistice); the War That Came Early novels:Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch,Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts,andLast Orders;the Worldwar saga:In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance,andStriking the Balance;the Colonization books:Second Contact, Down to Earth,andAftershocks;the Great War epics:American Front, Walk in Hell,andBreakthroughs;the American Empire novels:Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold,andVictorious Opposition;and the Settling Accounts series:Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple,andIn at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters—Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca—and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.Excerpt: l‡