Publisher's Synopsis
Uncivil Wars opens in 1857 and takes
the reader through the horrors of the Indian Mutiny
to China and the Second Opium War, during which Speedicut
is captured and tortured in the notorious Board of
Punishments. Back in England, Speedicut remarries and he and
his new wife spend their honeymoon in the United States,
where they get caught up in the American Civil War - along
with Scarlett O'Hara, Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler,
all of whose real characters he
ruthlessly exposes
