Northern Armageddon is the story of the Siege of Quebec and its climax, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.  A brief bloody affair, it brought a brutal end to the Seven Years' War in North America, the first truly global conflict - and the first truly modern one - waged against civilians and cities as well as soldiers and fortifications.  This is a story of strategy, generals and geopolitics - and ordinary people.  A british sailor, an American irregular, a French officer, a Huron warrior, a nun who tended the wounded; their impressions, captured in letters and journals, give us a new, more human view of the battle, one often absent from the history books.