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    Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition
    Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition
    Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition
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    Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition

    By Sandy Addison

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    It’s the Spring of 1947 and Canada, as part of the British Commonwealth, has been at war with the German Third Reich for seven and a half years. A lot has changed in that time, not the least of which a whole bunch of technological changes brought about by the Rifts that were opened by the America’s atomic bombs. The Canadians added their own changes to the world when they started to allowed women to crew some of this tech on the front lines. Now Sergeant Alexandra ‘Alex’ Mackenzie and the crew of the walker Winnie face their greatest challenge so far: breaking in a new British Lieutenant as their commanding officer. Oh, and they also have to help their battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, to break through a German defensive line. But that’s just what they agreed to do when they volunteered to crew the Allies walking tanks.

    Set in the universe of Clock Work Goblins Miniatures’ Konflikt ’47, Seaforth’s Ladies brings to life the rich and gritty background of this alternative World War II. This revised edition contains more world background, making it easier for those not familiar with the Konfikt '47 universe to get into the story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandy Addison
    Release dateNov 4, 2018
    ISBN9780463301029
    Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition
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    Sandy Addison

    I'm a 50 year old neurodiversified guy who had come to writing thanks to the websites deviantART and Smashwords, and the encouragement of some really good friends. I started posting adult stories under a pen name got some good feedback and kept writing because I firmly believe in the 10,000 hour theory and that ultimately writers write.After posting a couple of stories on deviantART I checked out Smashwords and seeing how easy it was to publish an eBook and all the different things people were trying I decided there really wasn't any excuse for me not to throw my hat into the ring.

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      Seaforth Lades:Revised Edition - Sandy Addison

      Seaforth’s Ladies: Revised Edition

      Characters and Story Copyright 2018, 2020 Sandy Addison

      Background and Technical Information Copyright 2016 By Clockwork Goblin and Warlord Games

      Permission has been granted to the Author to use this material to create fiction works within the setting.

      Image and Logo Copyright 2016 By Clockwork Goblin

      Cover Art By Scott P. 'Doc' Vaughn

      Published by Sandy Addison at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Why a Revised Edition

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      About Sandy Addison

      Other books by Sandy Addison

      Connect with Sandy Addison

      Acknowledgements

      The author wishes to thank Cliff A and Matt O for their long-time support and editing help with both this and other projects. One could not ask for better brothers both actual and figurative.

      As I continue to explore what it means to be an independent writer in the 21st century, one of the unexpected pleasures has been meeting and working with other creative people. The first was Kira Omans (www.kiraomans.com) the narrator of the Seaforth’s Ladies audiobook. I chose Kira to narrate the original Seaforth’s Ladies because of all the potential narrators I had to choose from Kira was the only one with attitude, and someone like Alex needs attitude.

      The second was Scott Vaughn (www.warbirdsofmars.com) the artist who created the wonderful cover for the revised edition. I’ve been following Scott for a number of years on Patreon and it was because of his Dieselpunk story Warbirds of Mars, that I approached him for my first commissioned cover. Like Kira he was a pleasure to work with, charged very reasonable prices for commissions and kept to his schedule.

      Finally, a big thank you goes to Chris Hale (www.clockworkgoblinsminis.ca.uk) at Clockwork Goblin for allowing me to play around in his sandbox. If you ever make it out to Vancouver Chris; the first round is on me.

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my mother Jean Addison. While she and Alex are of a similar stature Alex is very much her own person. Though it worried me as to just how close their characters might be. When I was describing Alex and her background to my mother. When I described Alex’s habit of carrying a pair of brass knuckles and that it came from growing up in Steveston (where my mother also grew up); her reply was a very matter of fact ‘sounds about right’.

      A Note regarding the Rank Spellings

      As some readers may already know Lieutenant is pronounced as Leftenant within the British Commonwealth. As one of my ex-military friends put it. "Our officers do not manage toilets." In an effort to write a legitimate ‘Canadian Accent’ where Lieutenant is spoken by a non-American character, I’ve written it as Leftenant. In all other instances I’ve written it Lieutenant.

      Why a revised edition?

      Generally, I was very happy with how Seaforth’s Ladies turned out. Yes, there were some grammatical hiccups here and there, but this is an independently published book, and with editing costing an arm and a leg, such things are to be expected. I was spurred to go back to the story when I was editing the audio book with Kira Omans, and some of the questions she was asking. It was then that I realized that Seaforth’s was a great little story for people who were already familiar with the Konflikt ’47 universe, but less so for someone coming to the story without knowing about the game. What did a Grizzly look like? What did a Thor? How did the war end up going on until 1947? It was then that I realized that I needed to add a lot more of the background that had gotten me interested in writing stories inside this universe in the first place.

      This revised edition is an attempt to make Winnie’s and his crew’s story more accessible to the general public and hopefully inspire them to find out more about the world of Konflikt ’47 as a whole.

      Prologue

      From Walking into Germany: A Fighting Woman’s Story by Sarah May (1955)

      In the spring of 1947, my personal goals were to stay alive, keeping my fellow crewmates alive and a grim determination to continue to grind the German’s down and to finally win this war. While ‘grind’ wouldn’t be the word of choice for many soldiers (certainly not Sergeant Mackenzie), I believe it best describes how the allies were winning. Even before defying my parents, to join the army I had taken an active interest in the war’s ‘big picture’. And the most amazing thing I’d taken from the war so far, was how much the allies had pushed back the Germans despite the lack of decisive victories.

      I mean they tried, but time after time neither the Western Allies nor the Soviets were able to replicate the German victories like Norway, France in 1940, or early Barbarossa. Those early, battles of manoeuvre, successes made the German Army into a legend. While the allies could beat the Germans and push him back, we could never achieve a 100% victory. Take the Russian ‘victory’ at Stalingrad for example. They had that German army surrounded dead to rights, yet Jerry was, once again, with skill and sheer luck able to break through and get the army out. The Germans lost thousands of men and almost all of their equipment and were forced to retreat thousands of miles. Yet because the 6th Army survived the propaganda victory went to the Germans.

      I think that’s why President Roosevelt decided to go ahead with the nuclear attack on Dresden in March of 1944, before the Rift was fully understood. Here was a weapon that with a single use, or perhaps two or three, would end the European War; in a matter of weeks without millions having to die. That it instead gave the Axis the tools to fight us to a standstill and caused the great fracture of the alliance is what, I believe, broke Roosevelt, and caused him to decide not to try for a fourth term in office.

      Looking back if there was ever one date that demarcated one era from another, both for the world and myself, I believe that date would have to be February 29, 1944. The day that the United States tested the world’s first nuclear device in Los Alamos New Mexico. Not only did it mean that the United States had a powerful new weapon, but it was also on that date that a tear, a rift, in the fabric of reality formed and stabilized in the next several days. Unfortunately, the realization of what this Rift meant wasn’t kicked up the chain of command in time, and Dresden was consumed in nuclear fire; with the same results as at Los Alamos. A tear in dimensional

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