Published 2014 by Pyr®, an imprint of Prometheus Books

Blood and Iron. Copyright © 2014 by Jon Sprunk. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Sprunk, Jon, 1970

       Blood and iron / Jon Sprunk

             pages cm — (The book of the black earth ; part 1)

       ISBN 978-1-61614-893-5 (pbk.)

       ISBN 978-1-61614-894-2 (ebook)

       1. Imaginary wars and battles. I. Title.

PS3619.P78B56  2014
813’.6—dc23

2013037702

Printed in the United States of America