- Hardcover: 640 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; 1st edition edition (6 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340715510
- ISBN-13: 978-0340715512
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 564,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"1 'Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash' TIME OUT (about WORLD OF DIFFERENCE) 2 'Engrossing... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters... totally fascinating' BOOKLIST (about THE GREAT WAR) 3 '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 REMAIN)
BOOKLIST (about THE GREAT WAR)
'Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters ... totally fascinating'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well, volume 4 of the Great War Tetralogy turned out to be volume 1 of the American Empire series. This book starts to deal with the inter war years and how the USA and CSA cope with having fought such a destructive war. Unsurprisingly, they react similarily to Europe in the inter war years and this, I feel, is part of what Turtledove is trying to show, that the circumstances of history mould countries. The CSA and USA could be Germany and France and their histories are similar.
Obviously, this is the more shocking with the CSA. Whilst the sight of the USA gaining its first ever Socialist government is moderately amusing and interesting, the slow descent of the CSA into fascism is shocking and disturbing. Previous books have shown Communism as an American idea and this book shows Fascism as an American idea drawing on the only too familiar roots of Racism that were around in the real 1920s Southern States (and, lets be honest, weren't too far away in the North either.) And I wonder where Turtledove is going with this, though I think I can guess. With Fascism and Communism being American ideas, it seems only too likely that the Holocaust will be an American idea also, with a Black face rather than a Jewish one.
I could criticise this book, for example the history of the CSA seems to paralell inter-war Germany a little too closely with Donald Featherstone's Freedom Party paralleling the Nazis too much. But I would still reccomend it. The story seems to get to 1924-25 (Turtledove's a little hazy about dates) so there's plenty of time to go before WWII - although it doesn't necessarily have to start in 1939, I guess, so maybe there's less time than it seems.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
With this book, the "Great War" series is more-or-less wrapped up, and we're set up for the next series; I'm informed that the author has signed to do three more books in this universe. On the whole, it was a good book, although IMNSHO the parellels between a certain character and Hitler were a little contrived, and (as has been a problem thruoghout this series) there are rather too many viewpoint characters. Also, something to tell the reader what year we are now in would be very helpful. Even with these problems, I enjoyed the book a lot, and consider it a valuable addition to alternate-history literature.
Format:Paperback
The first book in the American Empire trilogy but the fifth book in the 11 volume alternative fiction epic imagining what might have happened had the South won the American Civil War.
The plot is really starting to thicken now and I'm fully engrossed in the series. Got to say that this has been the best of the first five books. The characters are all beginning to emerge as very important players in the great drama and not the ordinary citizens they appeared to be for so long. I like the fact that Turtledove doesn't shirk from killing some of them off, even though we've been following their stories for several books.
I thought I knew where the series was headed but I'm not so certain now.
A cracking good read.
The plot is really starting to thicken now and I'm fully engrossed in the series. Got to say that this has been the best of the first five books. The characters are all beginning to emerge as very important players in the great drama and not the ordinary citizens they appeared to be for so long. I like the fact that Turtledove doesn't shirk from killing some of them off, even though we've been following their stories for several books.
I thought I knew where the series was headed but I'm not so certain now.
A cracking good read.
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