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PublisherBaen Books

ISBN-100671578871

ISBN-139780671578879

eBay Product ID (ePID)1703525

Product Key Features

Book TitleSentry Peak

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicFantasy / General, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorHarry Turtledove

FormatBook, Other

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight25 oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-033722

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisWhen Avram became King of Detina, he intended to liberate the blond serfs. But the northern provinces would not accept him and seceded, choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king. Avram sent his army in against Geoffrey and the war raged for three years until Avram's general moved against the northern army close to the mountain called Sentry Peak--and the battle became far more desperate than either side realized., THE STRANGEST CIVIL WAR NOVEL YOU EVER READ When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. The northern provinces, where most of the serfs lived, would not accept his lordship. The hot north was a land of broad estates, whose noble overlords took the serfs' labor and gave back next to nothing. Those provinces left Detina, choosing Avram's cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king in his place. Avram said he had inherited all of the kingdom, not just a part. He refused to let Geoffrey rule the north without a challenge. And the southron provinces, full of merchants and smallholders, stood solidly behind him. So he sent armies clad in gray against the north. Geoffrey raised his own army, and arrayed his men in blue made from the indigo much raised on northern estates to distinguish them from the southrons. Avram held the larger part of the kingdom, and the wealthier part, too. But Geoffrey's men were bolder soldiers. And the north, taken all in all, had better wizards than the southrons did. The war raged for almost three years, until Avram's General Guildenstern moved against the northern army under Count Thraxton the Braggart, which held the town of Rising Rock, close by Sentry Peak. It was to be a crucial battle -- more crucial than either side knew....

LC Classification NumberPS3570.U76S46 2000