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This book is dedicated to my lovely wife, Marina, my beautiful
daughter, Katia, and to the Ancient City of Tver, Russia, the "City
of Beautiful Women," where I am building my castle, and have
made my home.

Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Edward Dunnigan and Jackie Britton for their
suggestions and their proofreading of this manuscript, and my
remarkable partner, Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, for
always being at my side, even though we live half a world from
each other.

Baen Books by Leo Frankowski

A Boy and His Tank
The War With Earth (with Dave Grossman)
The Fata Morgana
Conrad's Time Machine

PROLOGUE
An Amphibious Attack
on Baden-Baden Island

Rail guns and X-ray lasers being what they are, military doctrine is
that if you can see it, you can kill it. If they can see you, you are
dead.

The art of war has become the art of not being seen.

Thus it was that I was in my tank, crawling along the bottom of the
ocean, leading three squads of the Kashubian Expeditionary
Forces against the invaders from Earth. They had picked the most
isolated spot on the planet for their beachhead, a group of six
uninhabited islands under the jurisdiction of the smallest nation on
New Yugoslavia, the German Enclave.

New Yugoslavia's turbulent seas protected us from both enemy
sonar and almost everything in the electromagnetic spectrum. Oh,
a deep-scan radar might have found us, if it was looking down from
low orbit, but rail guns from both sides had taken out everything in
orbit long ago.

Anyone using a high-flying aircraft in wartime is simply suicidal.

We had been down here for seven of the planet's short, twenty-
hour days, and we had been having a fine enough time of it. The
fiber-optic communication cables we trailed behind us were finer
than a human hair, and needed constant patching in these seas.
We had lost contact with our main forces three hours after we left,