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In 1861, Greece is still a poor and divided nation, its destiny controlled by the great powers of Europe.A sudden accident sends a twenty-first-century engineer into this turbulent age, where he becomes a descendant of the family of one of modern Greece’s founding fathers. Armed with knowledge of modern industry, advanced military doctrine, and political strategy, he launches a revolution in Athens, overthrows the foreign-backed King Otto, and seizes control of a country on the verge of collapse.But overthrowing an old king does not guarantee a better future.The treasury is empty, the army is obsolete, the aristocracy controls the land, and Britain, France, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire all seek to determine Greece’s fate. To ensure the nation’s survival, he must build factories, reorganize the army, create a modern navy, reform land ownership, and navigate a dangerous diplomatic struggle among Europe’s great powers.From the barricades of Athens to the walls of Thessaloniki, from fleet battles in the Aegean Sea to the long front lines of Asia Minor, a once-weak kingdom gradually becomes the dominant military and industrial power of the eastern Mediterranean. Every war brings Greece closer to a dream forgotten for centuries: reclaiming Constantinople and raising the double-headed eagle above the Eternal City once again.Yet the rebirth of an empire creates new dangers. Expanding territories, complex ethnic divisions, a continent-wide war, and the conflict between power and order will determine whether this new state can truly escape the failures of the past.As the world enters two world wars and an age of confrontation between global power blocs, the reborn Roman Empire must choose between conquest and reform, faith and political reality.This is an alternate-history epic of nation-building, industrialization, war, and imperial rebirth.Can a modern man change the destiny of Greece?And can an empire lost for four hundred years truly return from history? Read more
