Defiant

Acknowledgments

I would like to sincerely thank Heather Alexander for permission to use her song, ''The March of Cambreadth,'' liberally in this novel. Anyone who hasn't heard a hundred plus fans singing ''How Many of Them Can We Make Die!'' has missed out on one of life's moments. You can own Heather's ''The March of Cambreadth'' for yourself by making a quick visit to www.heatherlands.com and ordering the Midsummer album. Heck, order them all. I did… regularly. Every time one of my kids left home, they took my Heather collection with them, and I had to order up a new set.

I would also like to thank the folks at the WWI discussion group for letting me raise the hypothetical question of what might have happened if the British government had fallen in July 1914 over the Irish question and then faced the beginning of World War I. I'd especially like to thank Syd Wise for his refresher on the British and Canadian systems and Luke Taper and Geoffrey Miller for the Australian model… which I borrowed with variations for Wardhaven. Obviously, the changes, and any mistakes, are my own.