Bears and Eagles - Bears and Eagles, #1

The begininng of the Bears and Eagles saga. The British and Russian empires are at their apex. Germany has just formed her confederation and is vying for prominance. America has recovered from her Civil War and is expanding her reach. A younger son of a minor landholder is allowed to join his Cossack band for the first time and is just hoping to survive the campain and return home, buy a farm and start a family.
Fate has other ideas and Andreas finds himself having to recruit a battalion of troops to provide Russian support to a British campain in Afghanistan. Set in the late nineteeth century, Bears and Eagles gives the reader a glimps of life in the choatic and turmoil during the time of the late 1800s and the class of empires as they strive to expand and consolodate.