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In this spellbinding tale of passion and cruel fate, love will not be held prisoner as Marigold and Maranta fight to be together with the men they truly desire… Ebook Download "Daughters of the Summer Storm" PDF ePub Kindl. August 16, Written between and by R. The novels often contain a series of unlikely events, whereby the protagonists succeed in the face of unbelievable odds.
Although based on real events, the novels tend to be heavily fictionalized and deviate from actual history in many instances. August 14, Der Knabe will in die Welt hinaus. In actuality it was US soldiers who - a year after the story's publication - would pour across a British-dominated Atlantic to assault Germany in Europe.
However, alternate history writer and analyst Dale Cozort notes that " The broad outline of the war [depicted] is so much like what actually happened between Germany and Russia 25 or so years later, in World War II, that it's almost uncanny.
The Germans win battle after battle but the opposition moves industry out of their reach, builds up overwhelming superiority in manpower and strategic mobility, then cuts off the cream of the German army.
Hancock appears to have been among the first American writers to graphically describe their country being devastatingly invaded by powerful enemies - reflecting the disruption of the hitherto dominant American isolationist mindset. In effect, this sub-genre went full circle with the alternative history novel by Robert Conroy, depicting a fictitious invasion of the United States by Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany in the title year, bearing quite a bit of resemblance to Hancock's work.
Many of Hancock's books also appeared in the Street and Smith's "Bound to Win" series see the following. Note: many of the above books were reprinted by the Saafield Company, after the Henry Altemus company failed. The Saafield editions are on high acid content paper, and few surviving copies are in good condition.
The Alemus books are far superior in quality. Note: the series, published in , describes a fictional German invasion of the USA, dated in Irving Hancock.
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Fully forty boys, representing all the different classes at the Gridley High. School, stood looking on at this altercation in the school grounds. Half a dozen of the girls, too, hovered in the background, interested, or curious, though not venturing too close to what might turn out to be a fight in hot blood.
It was as though bright, energetic, honest Dick Prescott had been struck a blow that he could not resent. This, indeed, was the fact. With his left hand he flung down his cap. There were a few faint cheers, though some of the older High School boys looked serious.