About the book: 2019 / The first two parts of the book told: Four friends, 24–26 years old, “fall through” from 2002 to 1890. Having grown up in officer families, they did not accept the emergence of capitalism and consider socialism the most just system. The October Revolution is still far away. Fate scatters young people across different countries, two remain in Russia, two, after long travels, settle in Hawaii. The “misfits” shamelessly use the knowledge of the future, which is why they live richly. The gold of the Canadian Klondike opens the way for former RA officer Gusev to the position of Prime Minister of the Republic of Hawaii. He provokes the "Iron Duke" into conflict with Japan on the eve of its war with China. Japanese cruisers level Honolulu, bombard all the cities and towns of the country with artillery fire, but their landings fail. But Hawaiian speedboats rob civilian ships near Japan with impunity, taking advantage of the fact that Japanese cruisers cannot leave the coastal waters of Korea. England is unhappy with the Hawaiian attacks on its satellite. A representative of the Foreign Office arrives in Honolulu with a powerful argument - the battleship Centurion. The British accidentally kill the queen, and, devoid of diplomatic prudence, Gusev captures an English ship. The third part of the book tells about the hopeless struggle of the tiny republic with England. Expecting fatal troubles for the country from England, Gusev is in a hurry to make peace with Japan, and he miraculously succeeds . Friends are spending a lot of money to delay the British military operation. They manage to delay the attack for a year. Ershov’s engineering talent allows him to bring to working condition the project of the U-2 aircraft, which Buzov has been building for two years already. Pilots for the first dozen aircraft are being secretly trained on the islands. The first squadron of the British disappears in the ocean without a trace. Foreign spies living on the islands did not note any particular activity of the Hawaiian fleet or losses on its part, so the disappearance of the squadron was explained by the recent typhoon. This makes it easier for Klyachkin to conduct propaganda against sending a new landing party to the Hawaiian Islands. The British operation in Sudan is extremely difficult, the construction of the railway is delayed.