Darkness Descending

Darkness Descending by Harry Turtledove. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780671033057.

An epic mixture of fantasy and war In this sequel to the bestselling INTO THE DARKNESS, the country of Algarve is successful in its blitzkrieg tactics, but becomes bogged down in the desolate winter of Unkerlant, its main enemy. Algarves king decides to undertake blood magic, which amounts to genocide, in order to break the deadlock; when it is seen to work, its use elsewhere cannot be long coming. On a small island, a theoretical sorcerer may hold the only answer to this horror...Harry Turtledove has taken events similar to those from Earths wars and transplanted them to a wonderfully imagined fantasy world. his characters - of all nations and classes - live and breathe.