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# Ashes of Victory ## BACK FROM HELL For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war. But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security ... and executed on the interstellar network's nightly news. The Manticoran Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor's death and grimly resolved to avenge it. Yet their military is over-extended and the People's Republic is poised to take the offensive once more, this time with a new strategy, new weapons, a new command team, and a whole new determination to win. The war is about to enter a phase of unprecedented ferocity . . . and the Alliance is on the short end of the stick. But even as powerful Peep fleets hurtle towards their objectives, neither they nor the Alliance are aware of events occurring on a distant, isolated, inescapable prison planet called Hell. For what no one knows, not even State Security, is that Honor Harrington is not dead. She and a handful of her people are trapped on Hell, and determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever escape it. Honor Harrington is going home, and taking her people with her... even if she has to conquer Hell to do it. ### ABOUT THE AUTHOR A lifetime military history huff, David Weber has carried his interest in history into his fiction. In the Honor Harrington series, the spirit of both C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and history's Admiral Lord Nelson are evident. Weber's other work includes the science fiction adventure novel, Path of the Fury, his new epic fantasy series, so far consisting of Oath of Swords and The War God's Own, and the three novels of the "Dahak" space adventure series: Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire. Weber has worked as a war game designer, most extensively on the Task Force game Starfire™. With Steve White, he has written three novels set in that universe, Insurrection, Crusade, and In Death Ground. Weber lives in Greenville, South Carolina. He shows all signs of being the next Big Name in science fiction. Cover art by David Mattingly Interior schematics by Russell Isler Interior map by Hunter Peddicord
Hardcover Paperback This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, March 2000 Library of Congress Catalog Number: 99-054523 Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Printed in the United States of America | ### ISBN: 0-671-57854-5 Copyright 2000 by David Weber All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 http://www.baen.com Production by Windhaven Press Auburn, NH Electronic version by WebWrights http://www.webwrights.com

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