Introduction and Notes by David Blair.
Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line.
Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers.
Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy.
It is 1757.
University of Kent at Canterbury.
Introduction and Notes by David Blair