I would say this volume of the series was even better than the previous, which kind of felt like it was dragging on a bit there at the end of the war. This book has some interesting ideas and some fantastically bad writing. So I was a little lost for a bit, but was eventually after to figure out exactly what was going on.I realized only in the middle of this that, while it's part 1 of a trilogy, it's also really book 7 of a 9 book set. I love his grasp of history and the cast of characters is great. He wrote several books including American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Every month our team sort...Start with Turtledove's How Few Remain, which explains how this alternate history begins with a different outcome in the Antietam campaign of 1862.
Life in the south seemed to be out of hope, with its very social structure broken and the economy got into inflation. Some people fall in love. The Freedom Party, fueled by its hatreds on both niggers and planter-aristocrats, proppelled itself unto power, and quite successful at first. This is the first volume of the This book has some interesting ideas and some fantastically bad writing. I loved the creative premise and realism. Some things I really thought were great, like the Black Socialist republics mirroring the failed communist uprisings in the Weimar Republic. I got about 100 pages into it and read about too many different loosely connected characters. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide.
I would say this volume of the series was even better than the previous, which kind of felt like it was dragging on a bit there at the end of the war. It tells of the inter-war years, which means he can't rely so much on talking about people smoking or being shelled or complaining about how much the generals are idiots.I'd probably give this about 3.7 stars... one of his best I've read to date. How would a Northern occupation of Kentucky play out? Go back to Creative Writing 101, Turtledove!This is my favourite in Harry Turtledove's startlingly ambitious alternate history Southern Victory series, where an independent Confederacy allies itself with Britain and France and changes subsequent global history.An action thriller set in an alternate world where the U.S. Civil War never ended and the U.S. was allied with Germany in "The great War". Against this situation, a new political power rose in south. Two, three, or four separate plot threads at the same time--okay, I can handle it. Against this situation, a new political power rose in south. He still has an issue with beating us senseless with certain points - we really don't need to hear anymore that Nellie Semproch is embarrassed about her past - the last four novels have more than driven that home.This series by Turtledove takes place between the first and second world wars. Also, as the narrative develops, many of the different characters from among the two sides and from different parts of the country are beginning to cross paths with one another, sometimes by chance, sometimes in a calculated way. And some people fall in love with books about falling in love. Nothing more, nothing less.All in all, Harry T picks things up nicely from the end of the previous (World War I, sorta) trilogy, and moves the plot at a faster pace than previously. Ironically, it is also the first one for which there is not a war between the USA and CSA.
I didn't like Jake Featherston, and I really felt like Turtledove was forcing a Hitler on the reader. I know that this is just the first in a trilogy and is probably setting the stage for the rest of the series, but it didn't grab me enough to want to read the rest.This is the first book in the newest trilogy ("American Empire") in Turtledove's alternate history where the South won the Civil War, which chronologically follows immediately after his World War I series. I love the characters, and get bummed when somebody dies. I like Timeline-191, and American Empire was interesting in that the trilogy would be the first in the series which there wouldn't be full blown war in the plot. ThStart with Turtledove's How Few Remain, which explains how this alternate history begins with a different outcome in the Antietam campaign of 1862. That is hard to do when it comes to fiction.
This is for #2, an alternate history novel.Turtledove: you know what you'll get. He has a PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University and has taught at West Point and Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty at Boston University in 1998 and becoming Professor of International Relations. Pancho from the Cisco Kid, Leo Carrillo was the comic sidekick then and Jiminy Cricket, or the guy who did his voice was Gunty, but I thought he was Russel Hayden because he looked just like him, but I had to look it up and it was Robert Barrat..Turns out I'm that fool yessiree and I'm not gonna make it to 93..