Sixth Column

US: Baen, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A perfect Heinlein near-future adventure from the First Golden Age of the l egendary SF master and multiple New York Times best-seller with a new intro duction and afterword by popular military SF writer Tom Kratman.. After the U.S. is conquered by totalitarians, an enclave of brilliant misfits leads a rebellion against near-impossible odds with humor, courage, grit-and ulti mate success. It?fs six against six million in a brilliantly-waged near-future war for no thing less than liberty and justice for all. The totalitarian East has triu mphed in a massive invasion and the United States has fallen to a dictatori al superpower bent on total domination. That power is consolidating its gri p via concentration camps, police state tactics, and a total monopoly upon the very thoughts of the conquered populace. A tiny enclave of scientists a nd soldiers survives, unbeknownst to America?fs new rulers. It?fs six again st six million-but those six happen to include a scientific genius, a maste r of subterfuge and disguise who learned his trade as a lawyer-turned-hobo, and a tough-minded commander who knows how to get the best out of his rag- tag assortment of American discontents, wily operators, and geniuses. It?fs going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would lea ve Madison Avenue aghast, but the U.S. will rise again. The counterinsurgen cy for freedom is on, and defeat is not an option. About Robert A. Heinlein: ?gNot only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, b.