The Scream of Hachiman and Further Tales.

In the timeline to our left, the year is 1862.The American Civil War is raging......with a significant difference: Everything west of the Mississippi River has been part of Imperial Japan for nearly 250 years. While Europeans landed, weapons in hand, looking for colonies, the Japanese came in search of friends, offering mochi. Eastern tribes have the status of clans in Old Japanese culture. Daisho, the two swords, and eagle feathers have come to identify Eastern samurai.The Native population like it this way.Tokugawa no Kenjiro, Lord Musashi is freshly graduated from the Imperial Army Officers Academy. In the Eastern Han he is posted to command a border fort and a single company of the Frontier Guard. A peaceful year riding patrols along a section of the border between Japan and Spain awaits, until, someone in Spanish California decides to invade Japanese territory.Badly outnumbered, he must choose: withdraw, hold the pass and await re-enforcements or, when the opportunity for a night attack presents itself, seize the opportunity.

Pagina's: 436, Paperback, Independently published