Year of Attack (See Cover)
The little half-naked man on Wotje would not be surprised at the sight of the birds sweeping up from the horizon. For 22 successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill.
The new birds had...
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