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Overview

The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a racist nation, take up the weapons of the Red rebellion. Despite these advantages, the United States remains pinned between Canada and the Confederate States of America, so the bloody conflict continues and grows. Both presidents--Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson--are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost. . .

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What would happened if the Ear Between the States had evolved into the First World War? That's the fascinating question that harry Turtledove poses in his bristling new alternate history fiction. In the novel, it's 1917 and president Roosevelt is leading the United States through a conflagration on two fronts. To the north, the Americans are battling the Canadians and the British Empire, and, to the south, the never-say-die Confederate States continue their barbed wire defiance. Thus, all the intensity of the Civil War is infused with all the barbarity of twentieth century engines of death. Air combat, lethal gas, tank shells, and long range bombardment all rear their ugly heads. Savage—and satisfying.
Publishers Weekly
The Hugo Award-winning master of alternate world histories presents the second volume in the WWI series he began last year with The Great War: American Front. In Turtledove's version of the War to End All Wars, conflict rages on the American continent between the USA (with 34 states) and the Confederate States of America, which won secession during the Civil War. Allied with Germany and France, the USA in 1915 hopes to take advantage of a weakened CSA, which is plagued by a socialist revolution engineered by its former slaves. Setting his tale on a suitably large canvas, Turtledove introduces a variety of characters who exemplify the diverse political and economic circumstances of the period: Anne Colleton, a former Confederate landowner, must learn to cooperate with her activist fieldhands; Flora Hamburger, a New York intellectual, fights against class injustice and runs for a seat as a socialist congresswoman; Confederate sub commander Roger Kimball plans a risky attack on New York Harbor. Turtledove judiciously blends famous historical characters into the plot, so readers learn of General Custer's frustration at being unable to conquer Tennessee and see Woodrow Wilson as a Confederate president. Although there are numerous battle scenes, the gore is restrained. Instead, the author emphasizes character, and his thorough knowledge of the period's history will, as usual, captivate his readers, Foreign rights sold in the U.K. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
World War I enters its second year, and on the American continent the opposed forces of the United States and the Confederacy (CSA) continue to battle each other, determined once and for all to settle the conflict that has divided them since the Civil War. Continuing the epic saga begun in The Great War: The American Front, Turtledove chronicles the growing turmoil as second-class blacks lead a Communist uprising in the CSA while U.S. Socialists protest American involvement in the war and Canadian civilians rise up against American occupation forces. The author's consummate knowledge of military history lends immediacy to his battle scenes while his understanding of human nature brings a personal touch to the harsh and unforgiving reality of war. A good choice for most libraries. [Science Fiction Book Club main selection.] Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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Sequel to The Great War: American Front (1998), an alternate world yarn where WWI has developed into a struggle on American soil. The United States, led by Teddy Roosevelt, have allied themselves with Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany. Woodrow Wilson's Confederate States, though backed by Britain and France, face internal troubles in the shape of a Marxist-inspired rebellion of the South's oppressed blacks. Contortions aside, then, what we end up with is Turtledove's restaging of the American Civil War within a 20th-century milieu. For readers less than totally committed, the question is: when does maybe topple over into no way?

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780345405623
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/28/2000
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 640
  • Sales rank: 214,977
  • Series: Great War Series, #2
  • Product dimensions: 4.16 (w) x 6.88 (h) x 1.05 (d)

Meet the Author

Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949.  After flunking out of Caltech, he earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history from UCLA.  He has taught ancient and medieval history at UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, and Cal State L.A., and he published a translation of a ninth century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly articles.  He is also a Hugo Award-winning and critically acclaimed full-time writer of science fiction and fantasy.  He is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos.  They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.

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George Enos looked across the Mississippi toward Illinois. The river was wide, but not wide enough to let him forget it was only a river. Here in St. Louis, he was, beyond any possible doubt, in the middle of the continent.

That felt very strange to him. He'd lived his whole life, all twenty-nine years of it, in Boston, and gone out fishing on the Atlantic ever since he was old enough to run a razor over his cheeks. He'd kept right on going out to fish, even after the USA went to war with the Confederate States and Canada: all part of the worldwide war with Germany and Austria battling England, France, and Russia while pro-British Argentina fought U.S. allies Chile and Paraguay in South America and every ocean turned into a battle zone.

If a Confederate commerce raider hadn't intercepted the steam trawler Ripple and sunk it, George knew he'd still be a fisherman today. But he and the rest of the crew had been captured, and, being civilian detainees rather than prisoners of war, eventually exchanged for similar Confederates in U.S. hands. He had joined the Navy then, partly in hopes of revenge, partly to keep from being conscripted into the Army and sent off to fight in the trenches.

They'd even let him operate out of Boston for a while, on a trawler that had gone hunting for enemy vessels with a submarine pulled on a long tow. He'd helped sink a Confederate submersible, too, but the publicity that came from success made any future success unlikely. And so, instead of his being able to see his wife and children when he wasn't at sea and to work like a fisherman when he was, they'd put him on a train and sent him to St. Louis.

He called up to the deck officer aboard the river monitor USS Punishment: "Permission to come aboard, sir?"

"Granted," Lieutenant Michael Kelly said, and Enos hurried up the gangplank and onto his ship. He saluted the thirty-four-star flag rippling in the breeze at the stern of the Punishment. Kelly waited till he had performed the ritual, then said, "Take your station, Enos. We're going to steam south as soon as we have the full crew aboard."

"Aye aye, sir," Enos said. Because he was still new to the Navy and its ways, he hadn't lost the habit of asking questions of his superiors: "What's going on, sir? Seems like everybody's getting pulled on board at once."

From some officers, a query like that might have drawn a sharp reprimand. Kelly, though, understood that the expanded Navy of 1915 was not the tight-knit, professional force it had been before the war began. The formal mask of duty on his face cracked to reveal an exuberant grin that suddenly made him look much younger: like Enos, he was tanned and lined and chapped from endless exposure to sun and wind. He said, "What's up? I'll tell you what's up, sailor. The niggers down in the CSA have risen up against the government there, that's what. If the Rebs don't put 'em down, they're sunk. But while they're busy doing that, how much attention can they pay to us? You see what I'm saying?"

"Yes, sir, I sure do," Enos answered. "Mind you," Kelly said, "I haven't got any great use for niggers myself—what white man does? And if the scuttlebutt is the straight goods, a lot of these niggers are Reds, too. And you know what? I don't care. They foul up the Rebels so we can lick 'em, they can fly all the red flags they want." "Yes, sir," George said again. After the commerce raider snagged him, he'd been interned in North Carolina for several months. He'd seen the kind of treatment Negroes got in the CSA. Technically, they were free. They'd been free for more than thirty years. But— "If I was one of those Negroes, sir, and I saw a chance to take a shot at a Confederate—a white Confederate, I mean—I'd grab it in a second."

"So would I," Kelly said. "So would anybody with any balls. Who would have thought niggers had balls, though?" He turned away from Enos as a couple of other sailors reported back aboard the Punishment.

The river monitor was, in the immortal words that had described the first of her kind, a cheesebox on a raft. She carried a pair of six-inch guns in an armored turret mounted on a low, wide ironclad hull. She also had several machine guns mounted on deck for land targets not worth the fury of guns that could have gone to sea aboard a light cruiser.

Enos had been a fisherman, which meant he was adept at dealing with lines and nets and steam engines, even if the one the Ripple had carried was a toy beside the Punishment's power plant. Having made use in his first assignment of the things he knew, the Navy plainly figured it had done its duty and could now return to its normal mode of operation: his station on the Punishment was at one of those deck machine guns.

He minded it less than he'd thought he would. Any New England fisherman worthy of the name was a born tinker and tinkerer. He'd learned to strip and clean and reassemble the machine gun till he could do it with his eyes closed. It was an elegantly simple means of killing large numbers of men in a hurry, assuming that was what you wanted to do.

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  • Posted July 31, 2011

    Loved it

    Another great one in the series.

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  • Posted July 31, 2011

    Great series

    I bought them all and want to read them again. If only I could trade for ebook versions.

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  • Posted July 31, 2011

    End the stalemate

    And breakthrough to the end of the war. Great book in the series.

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  • Posted February 25, 2010

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    Get Hooked

    I got Hooked on the whole series after reading this book; I bought all 11!

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  • Posted February 25, 2010

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    Very interesting

    Has a very interesting mini-conclusion. The war is over! Read American Empire!

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  • Posted February 25, 2010

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    Second in a great series

    Read it! Love it! Get hooked! Great story, very interesting!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 8, 2007

    GREAT

    I have read a lot of books looking for a good what if book. Now I have found a great what if timeline i was realy pleased with this book and i recomened it to anyone who loves history

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 26, 2007

    Excellent history

    I think it was well written, it gives and shows reasons of how World War One starts in this alternate history life. It also has World War One references.I really reccomend it.It has great descriptions of the different settings. The only bad thing is it's pretty long.also it has a cool map.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 27, 2003

    5 Stars for this GREAT book!

    2nd book of this Alternate world of choas which started in How Few Remain. if you are interested in this book make sure that you read How Few Remain first it leads into the Great War series which leads into the American Empire series which leads to the yet to be released Settling Accounts series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 25, 2003

    Just buy it

    If you are into civil war or science fiction this is a great combination which makes a great story, plot and overall is one of the best books ive ever read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 1, 2002

    The Breakthrough

    A tremendous finish to the Great War Series. Throughout the whole series I couldn't wait to see how it all ended, and the ending was as much as I expected. Turtledove has me hooked. I can't wait to start reading more of his work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2002

    War is Hell...

    ... and this book proves it. It is an awesome book describing war, and the affects it has on not only the soldiers, and the political leaders, but also civilians. It's action packed, and very hard to put down. A definite read for those who love war stories.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2001

    good start!

    a very good start to a good book. Harry always comes thru with a good novel-I hope he continues & puts out a new book in the near future.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 23, 2001

    A Different Kind Of Great War

    I was intrigued, and a little skeptical, when I picked up 'The Great War: American Front'. Until then the only good 'what if?' novel I had read was 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris. While Mr. Turtledove's book is on a different level, it exceeded all of my expectations. The author seems to have put a great deal of thought into the plot and the characters. Almost all of the scenes in the book come across with a feeling of authenticity. Mr. Turtledove has succeeded in making this idea of the USA fighting the Confederacy during the Great war very credible. Rarely does the book fall into the 'wishful thinking' that ruins so many other alternate history books. From the fighting in the trenches, the uprising in Utah to the Marxist rebellion in the South, the book takes the reader on a ride through the unknown what could have been.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2000

    Turtledove is the best there is at alternate history!

    This serries is so enthralling that you will not be able to put the book down. I know this is said about many books but I really could not put it down. I finished it in three days and wanted more! I love the way he works fictional characters in with real historical figures and events.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 11, 2000

    Pretty good!

    I liked it, but as usual with Turtledove there are a lot of characters to keep track of. It is also would be nice if there were some characters from the rest of the world, not only from america. An intersting point is that military logic, of the time, demands an harsh peace which lay the seed for another war regardless of which side won. I wonder if the economical terms will be equally harsh as the ones for territory and if the end of war will lead to an recession. All in all it's a good book and I will probably by the final, hopefully, installment as well.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 12, 2000

    Turtledove does it again!

    In The Great War: Breakthroughs Turtledove has written one of his best books ever and possibly set the stage for more books about WWII. In this book the U.S. gets it revenge against the Confederates, Canada and Great Britan. I've waited for this book for three years to see the U.S. come out on top. It was worth the wait.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 2, 2000

    This is another great book by Harry Turtledove.

    This book continues the Great War series. It is very believeable and very entertaining. If you like history or science fiction this is a book for you. It is also good for action lovers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 11, 2000

    Best Alternate History Book I've Ever Read

    This by far the best. Don't even bother reading the reviews, if you like WWI and the American Civil War then you'll love this book. The one thing I kept saying to myself was 'this could have happened'

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 25, 2000

    Can't say enough good things about it!

    I love depth and lots of description- Harry Turtledove's alternate history and Tom Clancy's first two books are like that. I am also a huge military history buff, and this book met all my wishes. Coming from Georgia, the 'Dixie Heartland,' and some Civil War ancestry (on the Southern side), but no racial feelings, I was eager to see what might have happened if the South had won. Well thought out and well-written, this book gets the highest rating and if possible, more. Every American should read it.

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