American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
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I bought this at a used bookstore in Greenfield, Wisconsin. Inside I found a gamecard with Catwoman on it.
The entire series consist of:
How Few Remain
The Great War: American Front
The Great War: Walk In Hell
The Great War: Breakthroughs
American Empire: Blood and Iron
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Settling Accounts: The Grapple
Settling Accounts: In At the Death
The book was pretty worn, so I put a vinyl cover on it.
The entire series consist of:
How Few Remain
The Great War: American Front
The Great War: Walk In Hell
The Great War: Breakthroughs
American Empire: Blood and Iron
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
American Empire: The Victorious Opposition
Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Settling Accounts: The Grapple
Settling Accounts: In At the Death
The book was pretty worn, so I put a vinyl cover on it.
This is the third book in the second trilogy "American Empire" of the alternate history series that Harry Turtledove started with HOW FEW REMAIN. In a world where the South won independence during the American Civil War, this trilogy covers the period of time after "The Great War", which was a sort of World War I fought in North America. The translation of European events of our own history into an American setting, and intermixed with actual North American events is fascinating. This volume covers the 1930s with a stock market collapse, a depression, and the rise of fascism in the Confederacy while a Socialist-led USA tries to keep down rebellion in secessionist Utah and occupied Canada.
These three books involve about 2000 pages, and reading them in direct sequence, I've gotten a little tired of Turtledove's tendency to repeat the background stories of the twenty or thirty main characters from different location, each time he returns to them. That background repeating probably adds up to a significant portion of the text. And I've also noticed that these characters all seem to have remarkably similar sex lives.
At this point, I'm going to give the series a rest, and read some other things. After I've collected all of the next four books covering a pseudo-World War II (one book not yet published) I'll come back.
These three books involve about 2000 pages, and reading them in direct sequence, I've gotten a little tired of Turtledove's tendency to repeat the background stories of the twenty or thirty main characters from different location, each time he returns to them. That background repeating probably adds up to a significant portion of the text. And I've also noticed that these characters all seem to have remarkably similar sex lives.
At this point, I'm going to give the series a rest, and read some other things. After I've collected all of the next four books covering a pseudo-World War II (one book not yet published) I'll come back.