Ashes of Victory is the ninth Honor Harrington novel by David Weber. Honor Harrington is a fictional character, the eponymous heroine of a series of books set in the Honorverse, written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ... David Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. ...
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Honor arrives home, only to discover that she was believed dead. The war continues, and Manticore is using its new technology to full advantage. Haven is certainly doomed, and it does not appear that Honor will be pivotal to the end of the war. After learning that she is now a sister of twins, recuperating from her injuries, and helping prove to the world that treecats are as intelligent as humans, she gets dragged into politics again. The Star Kingdom of Manticore, also known as Manticore and abbreviated as SKM, is a fictional human star-nation in the Honorverse, the setting for a series of books written by David Weber and published by Baen Books. ... The Peoples Republic of Haven is a fictional star nation in the Honorverse. ... Treecats are a fictional species of intelligent lifeforms who take a prominent role in a series of novels and stories about the Honorverse. David Weber was the original author, but others have begun to contribute related stories. ...
As their defeat approaches, the Havenite leaders become the targets of attacks from within their own nation. Once the Navy is no longer willing to support them and the heads of the Committee of Public Safety are dead, their empire crumbles. It appears that the war is over.
The Ashes urn is reputed to contain a burnt set of bails symbolising the death of English cricket.
The urn is not used as a trophy for the Ashes series, and whichever side "holds" the Ashes, the urn remains in the MCC Museum at Lord's.
The Ashes urn itself is never physically awarded to either England or Australia, but is kept permanently in the MCC Cricket Museum at Lord's Cricket Ground, where it can be seen together with a specially-made red and gold velvet bag and the scorecard of the 1882 match.
Whether she is saving a system from annihilation or a government from treason, Honor is constantly standing with her back to the figurative wall against the demons, pushed to the limit and past and yet forging on, bloodied but unbowed.
And she is left, as are we all, with the Ashes of Victory.
My copy of On Basilisk Station is near to disintegrating, and while Ashes of Victory has not quite the same style of fast-paced action, it bears reading anew (and often) to absorb the many and profound changes Weber has wrought in the Harrington universe.
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