War is easy to start, but damn hard to finish, - said the Duke of Wellington, who fought in his lifetime like no other. The Civil War is even more so.... Until now, the Civil War in the United States was known to the Russian reader more on the melodrama M. Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" Naturally , That's a brilliant science fiction Harry Harrison , This time I decided not to experiment with the future. with the past, This is a very different story ,. by , Based on the facts, He allowed himself an innocent prank - at least slightly corrected the biography of a single person. and the river of history flowed along another channel .