"John Ringo - The Legacy of the Aldenata 7 - Watch On The Rhine" - читать интересную книгу автора (Ringo John)

"No, my young friend," answered the Kanzler, slowly and deliberately.
"There is one resource yet we have not touched. One that I would never
have touched, myself, before seeing this nightmare with my own eyes."

One resource? One resource. What could the Kanzler mean? Suddenly

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G├╝nter's eyes widened with understanding. "Mein Herr, you can't mean
them."

Tightening his overcoat about him in the cold, reaching up a hand to
brush away yet more of the steadily falling snow, the Kanzler looked
skyward as if asking for guidance. Not receiving any, still with eyes
turned heavenward, he answered, definitively, "Them."

The chancellor thought, but did not say, And anything else I must bring
back to prevent this from happening to our cities, our people.
Paris, France, 13 November 2004

The crowd was immense; its intensity, palpable. One among half a
million protest marchers, Isabelle De Gaullejac felt as she had not since
her happy and carefree days as a Socialist Youth.

Though past forty, Isabelle was yet a fine looking specimen of
womanhood. Typically French, she had retained her slender shape. Her
shoulder-length brown hair was untouched by gray. And if her face had a
few more wrinkles than it had had as a young college student, the
sidelong glances of men old and young told her she had not lost her
appeal.

Then it had been the Americans she had protested; them, and the war
they had inherited from France. Now it was France she protested against,
France and the war it had seemingly inherited from the Americans.

She was sure, certain, that it was all the Americans' fault. Had the aliens,
these Posleen, attacked Earth first? No. Foolishly, at American behest,
the French Army had gone to the stars, looking for trouble and becoming
involved in a fruitless war, against a previously unknown alien
civilization.

And for what? To save a crumbling federation of galactics?

France's business was here, on Earth, looking after French people.


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