The Great War: Walk in Hell
Chapter One
George Enos looked across the Mississippi toward Illinois. The river
was wide, but not wide enough to let him forget it was only a river.
Here in St. Louis, he was, beyond any possible doubt, in the middle
of the continent.
That felt very strange to him. He'd lived his whole life, all
twenty-nine years of it, in Boston, and gone out fishing on the
Atlantic ever since he was old enough to run a razor over his
cheeks. He'd kept right on going out to fish, even after the USA
went to war with the Confederate States and Canada: all part of the
worldwide war with Germany and Austria battling England, France, and
Russia while pro-British Argentina fought U.S. allies Chile and
Paraguay in South America and every ocean turned into a battle zone.
If a Confederate commerce raider hadn't intercepted the steam
trawler Ripple and sunk it, George knew he'd still be a fisherman
today. But he and the rest of the crew had been captured, a ... read full excerpt from The Great War: Walk in Hell ebook