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

Mollified, if only partly, Athenalras glanced at the screen. "I see. You
would have us land here, east on the flat open area . . ."

"They call it Poland, my lord."

"Poland?" queried Athenalras. "Barbarous name," he snorted.

"Indeed," agreed Ro'moloristen. "And the reputation among the
threshkreen of these thresh of this barbarous place, Poland, in war is no
mean one, though they have had scant success."

"And the other major landing?"

"They call that France. Again, their reputation on the Path of Fury is no
mean one, and yet, they too have had scant success."

"I do not understand, puppy. We land, so you propose, at two locations
where the local thresh are fierce in war but do not succeed in it? I simply
do not understand."

Ro'moloristen answered, "Sometimes, my lord, one can be powerful on

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the Path of Fury, and yet fail because there is one more powerful still."
The young God King touched a claw to the screen. "Here. Here is the
place. The home of the gray-clad thresh. The place which puts into the
shadow the threshkreen of France and of Poland. The place for which we
must prepare an assault such as the People have never seen."

"And what is this fearsome place called, puppy?"

"My lord, the local thresh call their home, 'Deutschland.'"


Chapter 1
Fredericksburg, VA, 11 November 2004

Snow flecked the cheeks and eyebrows, falling softly to cover a scene of
horror with a clean white blanket. White snow fell upon, melded into, the
hair of a man gone white himself. He was stooped, that man. Bent over
with the care of ages and the weight of his people resting on his old, worn
back.

The Bundeskanzler2 turned his eyes away from the gruesome spectacle
even now being covered by snow. Bad enough to have seen a once vibrant
and historical city scoured from the face of the earth as if it had never