One Million Men,
by Toby Heale

Russian serfs flee starvation to be pitched into continuous battles for survival on muddy tracks leading into unknown worlds. Winter is always hostile and in the freezing wind humans hunt like animals. The serfs take their opportunities, develop, learn and prosper. But nothing ever goes in a straight line. Paul and his uncles Franz and Albert rescue a traveller and perhaps their world will change if they can take an opportunity.

Seeking a teacher they rescue a woman, Rosina Matraxan and a mysterious girl, Anna. But Franz has been wearing the traveler's clothing in town. It marks him as a foreigner and it rattles such a long chain with consequences they could never imagine. They are pitched into the thick of international plots that leaves them with an enemy in Napoleon's Imperial Police. They are more powerful than any other force in Europe, except Bonaparte himself, and they want blood.

The serfs continue their flight and emerge on a mission for Rosina that concerns Anna. Who is Anna? And why do the Imperial Police interest themselves in her? Do they want her dead? And why?

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