Author: Jerry Pournelle
Publisher: Pocket 82196
Year: 1978 Print: 1 Cover Price: $1.75
Condition: Near Fine. Light wear. Not read
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 190
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Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die—either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial state that spans first the Earth and then the Solar System. But, because it fails to hold the loyalty of its soldiers, it falters at the stars.