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This atrocious war began in August 1914. It is now March 1964 and believe it or not, it is still being waged. Occidental and American troops are fighting against the armies of a latter–day Genghis Khan, who has already put a bloody end to the Bolshevik Revolution. He is planning to create a Russo–Mongol Empire, stretching from the Atlantic to Vladivostok. While some aspects of this world seeem to be true to 1914, such as the trenches and bunkers, you will also find that several.

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary - she of the atrocious singing voice and the staidly religious bent of mind? Master storyteller Colleen McCullough paints a life for Mary Bennet twenty years after Jane Austen's novel closes.