- Paperback: 704 pages
- Publisher: New English Library; New Ed edition (20 Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340820128
- ISBN-13: 978-0340820124
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 550,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world ... This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less' (Publishers Weekly (starred review for HOW FEW REMA )
'Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash' (TIME OUT (about WORLD OF DIFFERENCE) )
'Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters ... totally fascinating' (BOOKLIST (about THE GREAT WAR) )
'Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash' (TIME OUT (about WORLD OF DIFFERENCE) )
'Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters ... totally fascinating' (BOOKLIST (about THE GREAT WAR) )
BOOKLIST (about THE GREAT WAR)
'Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters ... totally fascinating'
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this is the err...5th in the great war/american empire series and every single book has been fantastic. This is alternative history at its very very best!
This book picks up in the mid 1920's and covers a span of around ten years.
before reading this book u must read the others in the collection these are: Great War-American Front
Great War-Walk in Hell
Great War-Breakthrough
American Empire-Blood and Iron
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A fun book which follows on well from the previous book Harry Turtledove has done it again I am now looking forward to the next book. It’s a shame that the Great War and American Empire have be just set in America it would have been nice to get a look at Britain or the German Empire in this alternate world. Before you read this I would suggest you read American Empire Blood and Iron and the Great War series
Format:Paperback
Book 2 in the American Empire trilogy but Book 6 in the 11 volume epic imagining what might have happened had the South won the American Civil War.
I have been reading these books back-to-back and a clear pattern is begining to emerge. The middle book in each "section" is the weakest. I may be suffering from Turtledove fatigue I suppose but I found this book to be very slow, quite predictable and therefore fairly boring. It has become extremely clear where the overall story is heading and it really isn't very original. (Don't like spoilers, so I'll say no more on the subject).
It seems to me that the author decided it would be a trilogy but really didn't have enough of a story for one and so has had to pad things out by repeating the same things over and over. If I have to read one more line about Sam Carsten's skin not being able to take the sun I'll go mad. I have found myself skipping over paragraphs which isn't a good sign.
Anyway, I will keep going.
I have been reading these books back-to-back and a clear pattern is begining to emerge. The middle book in each "section" is the weakest. I may be suffering from Turtledove fatigue I suppose but I found this book to be very slow, quite predictable and therefore fairly boring. It has become extremely clear where the overall story is heading and it really isn't very original. (Don't like spoilers, so I'll say no more on the subject).
It seems to me that the author decided it would be a trilogy but really didn't have enough of a story for one and so has had to pad things out by repeating the same things over and over. If I have to read one more line about Sam Carsten's skin not being able to take the sun I'll go mad. I have found myself skipping over paragraphs which isn't a good sign.
Anyway, I will keep going.
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