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Alternative History Series

Harry Turtledove

3 Soft Cover books.

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The Great War: American Front
Harry Turtledove's second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative
history," How Few Remain, takes place in a world in which the Confederate
States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to
war against the United States once more. All the horrors of World War I,
such as trench
warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they're situated in a
North American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both
its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks, studying up on
left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As
in Turtledove's earlier Worldwar series, the majority of attention is paid
to an assortment of people at the battlefields and home fronts, their
stories unfolding in gradual increments that, at least so far, only
intermittently connect with each other. And there's not as much in the way
of "real" historical figures popping up in this first volume of The Great
War series, save for cameo appearances by U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt,
Confederate president Woodrow Wilson, an aging General Custer, and a handful
of others. It remains to be seen whether future entries in the series will
feature such obvious candidates for inclusion as the young Ernest Hemingway,
and how they'll appear in this strange new world.

American Empire: Blood and Iron
Nobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove,
especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he's working close
enough to the present for readers to appreciate his detailed analyses of how
familiar events might have turned out differently. His massive trilogy, The
Great War, described how WWI might have been fought on an Earth where the
Confederacy was still an independent nation. This follow-up novel begins by
showing postwar life. Teddy Roosevelt is president; however, the Socialist
Party gives the establishment serious competition, as veterans question the
society they fought to save, and Upton Sinclair challenges TR in the
election of 1920. Meanwhile, in the humiliated and bankrupt Confederate
states, an angry racist with a gift of demagoguery whips up violent mobs and
aims them at his enemies. Readers will recognize some of the names, but
watching historical processes in action is the novel's real attraction.
Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the
results of different choices. Sometimes, luck and willingness to compromise
can resolve conflicts. On the other hand, the Southern Hitler may have his
way. It depends on how well people make sense of the situations facing them.
Turtledove's introduction carries over a cast of 16 varied characters from
The Great War. Not all survive, but readers will be curious to see how the
rest go on to cope with new challenges. This book begins a panoramic story,
a new trilogy at least, that promises to be immensely fascinating.

How Few Remain
In 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference
of time travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by
their own skillful military and diplomatic efforts). The defeated North has
stewed for nearly 20 years. In this alternate history, the South exercises
an opportunity to purchase Sonora and Chihuahua from the bankrupt Mexican
Empire, having already wrested Cuba from Spain. James G. Blaine, now
president of the United States, arrogantly seizes upon this pretext and
invades with the aim of reunification. Lincoln has become an outcast of the
Republican Party and preaches socialism while Custer is a frustrated and
embittered colonel on the frontier, Samuel Clemens a fiery newspaper editor
in San Francisco, and Rosecrans the inadequate head of the Union Army.
Turtledove is an accomplished professional at this sort of thing and has
given us an entertainment that makes us think somewhat about why we are the
way we are. Highly recommended for history, historiography, military, and
popular fiction collections.

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