Since the first attempt to crush the heretics failed, the Church has no choice but to adopt some of the hated Charisian innovations for themselves. Mother Church's entire purpose is to prevent the very things to which Charis is committed. The Church of God Awaiting, which controls most of Safehold, has decreed their destruction. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis into a place of refuge for all who treasure freedom. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Not yet even thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. The fight for humanity's future isn't over, and won't be over soon.The latest novel in the New York Times-bestselling series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed and loss-a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlyn Athrawes. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of independence and self-determination. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlyn's help has vaulted forward into a new age of steam-powered efficiency.

Monk, warrior, counselor to princes and kings, Merlyn has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race.Īnd now the fight is thoroughly underway. Then awoke Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which Earth was lost. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud-a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. The Church permitted nothing new-no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. David Weber's Like a Mighty Army is the hotly anticipated seventh volume in the New York Times bestselling Safehold seriesįor centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting.

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