How Few Remain (book)

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• Confederated States of America
• United States of America
• Empire of Mexico

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• The Great War serie
• American Empire serie

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by Rick Wyatt

The United States of America flag is not the 35-star flag of 1865, nor the 38-star flag of 1881, which is when the novel takes place. Instead, it is a 26-star flag, and the star configuration differs from the historical version posted here . Whereas the "real" flag has a configuration (top to bottom) of 7-6-6-7 stars per row, the flag on the cover has a top to bottom configuration of 5-5-6-5-5, representing the 26 states that compose the US in 1881.
Georges G. Kovari III , 20 october 2000

by Marc Pasquin

On the cover of the Baen Books's paperback edition of the book, there is a CSA flag which is like the flag nowadays usually considered to be the flag of the South, i.e. the rectangular battle flag - but it has only twelve stars (the one in the middle of the cross is missing).
Elias Granqvist , 19 october 2000

"How Few Remain" is based on a history in which the CSA won their independence as the result of some changed circumstances at the battle of Sharpsburg in 1862. The CSA resulting from this was a federation composed of 12 States (including Kentucky), plus the Indian Territory, now known as Oklahoma; but in Turtledove's world ("How Few Remain" i