“The Prime Minister, the Honourable Sir Hector Hamilton, MP, KCB, will now address the Empire,” the stentorian tones of the announcer warned viewers. “For the first time he is speaking directly from the Cabinet Room in Downing Street via the BBC’s newly commissioned transatlantic link to the Imperial Cable Network.”
Abe had spoken to her about how recent scientific advances were on the verge of completely ‘revolutionising international telecommunications’ and, that in the next few years ‘anybody who wants to will be able to quickly and easily communicate with anybody else anywhere in the world, instantaneously, at the touch of a button.’
That the Prime Minister was able to speak to a housewife in her own living room on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean was proof positive that the times were changing.
Abe called it ‘the second industrial revolution’.
She loved it when he talked to her about the wide world even though◦– and she knew he knew it◦– much of what he said went straight over her head!
The doorbell chimed musically just as the Prime Minister of England’s◦– she had never got her head around the distinction between England, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, or the British Isles◦– grim face filled the small, grainy monochrome screen of the Lincoln family TV set.
Kate sighed, hefted Tom in her arms and went to answer the door.
“Mrs Lincoln?” A grave-faced man with the two-and-a-half ‘wavy navy’ rings of a lieutenant-Commander in the Volunteer Reserve who wore a base staff badge on his upper right arm, asked very gently.
The man was accompanied by a woman in sober civilian attire of about Kate’s own age, sporting a tab above her left breast identifying her as Second Officer◦– lieutenant◦– A.D. Brigham, in the Women’s Royal Naval Service, more popularly known as the WRENs.
“I’m Simon Wakeley, Ma’am,” her older, male partner explained.
Kate read the look in the other woman’s eyes and the tone of Lieutenant-Commander Wakeley’s voice and she… just knew.
They had come to tell her that Abe was dead…
Author’s Endnote
‘Travels Through The Wind’ is the third book in the New England Series set in an alternative America, two hundred years after the rebellion of the American colonies was crushed in 1776 when the Continental Army was destroyed at the battle of Long Island and its commander, George Washington was killed.
I hope you enjoyed it◦– or if you did not, sorry◦– but either way, thank you for reading and helping to keep the printed word alive.
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Inevitably, in writing an alternative history this book has referenced, attributed motives, actions and put words in the mouths of real, historical characters.
No motive, action or word attributed to a real person after 28th August 1776 actually happened or was said.
Whereas, to the best of my knowledge everything in this book which occurred before 28th August 1776 actually happened!
THE NEW ENGLAND SERIES
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BOOK 3: TRAVELS THROUGH THE WIND
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Book 4: Winter’s Return
Book 5: Winter’s Spy
Book 6: Winter’s Nemesis
Book 1: Until the Night
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Part 1: Main Force Country◦– September 1943
Part 2: The Road to Berlin◦– October 1943
Part 3: The Big City◦– November 1943
Part 4: When Winter Comes◦– December 1943
Part 5: After Midnight◦– January 1944
Book 1: Islands of No Return
Book 2: Heroes
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Book 1: A Ransom for Two Roses
Book 2: The Plains of Waterloo
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Lord Hawke
Aftermath
After Midnight
A Ransom for Two Roses
Brothers in Arms
California Dreaming
Empire Day
Heroes
Islands of No Return
Love is Strange
Main Force Country
Operation Anadyr
Red Dawn
The Big City
The Cloud Walkers
The Nantucket Sleighride
The Painter
The Pillars of Hercules
The Plains of Waterloo
The Road to Berlin
Travels Through the Wind
Two Hundred Lost Years
Until the Night
When Winter Comes
Winter’s Exile
Winter’s Pearl
Winter’s Return
Winter’s Revenge
Winter’s Spy
Winter’s War
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