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The Great War: American Front: The American Front (Paperback)

by Harry Turtledove (Author)
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  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: New English Library; New Ed edition (21 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340715464
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340715468
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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'Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it has depended on the United States of America.This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less.' (Publishers Weekly (Starred review) )

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Harry has picked a monster topic for his new alternate history epic. The world of HOW FEW REMAIN - where the American South won the civil war - has moved on to 1914. Maybe Europe is overshadowed by the thunder-clouds of war, but it is not only Europe that suffers the reign of blood. The US decides to support Germany, whilst the Confederacy falls in with her old allies, France and Britain, and it is America that becomes the new battlefield for their old antagonisms. Once again brother fights brother, friend against friend and the New World is ravaged by all the horrors of modern warfare.

This is the first of a four book series on the first global conflict by the modern day master of alternate history. This is THE GREAT WAR...

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5.0 out of 5 stars USA vs Confederacy: Round 3, part 1, 30 Jun 2001
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1914. The USA and Confederate States of America (see "How Few Remain" for the CSA's genesis) pick opposite sides and enter WW1 with gusto: the Confederates convinced they'll beat the USA for the third time running, the US forces nursing 50 years of resentment against their smaller neighbour. Here Harry Turtledove takes the events established in "How Few Remain" and expands on them as he details a very different world and world war. It's got a more soapy feel than the earlier book, focussing as it does more on ordinary folks than the historical figures of "How Few Remain" (Having said that, the image of a septuagenerian General Custer is an image I'll always treasure...), but it has the Turtledove hallmarks of historical sweep and thorough detail. It's the first in a tetralogy, so it's difficult to review alone, but his fully realised Confederacy and Europeanized - complete with Socialist Party! - USA commands the attention. Good, but the diffuse narrative and "first in a series" feel mean that it's not as good it could be. If you're going to buy this, get the full "Great War" set and read them back-to-back.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good story of an America at war with itself, 28 Jul 2004
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For fans of alternative history, the stories of Harry Turtledove have always promised enjoyable presentations of intriguing possibilities. This book is the second in his 'tetralogy' examining a world in which the South won the Civil War. American Front picks up the story in 1914 with the start of a world war between the U.S. and its ally Germany on the one hand, and the Confederate states, Britain, and France on the other. Turtledove knows his history and it shows, as the novel's events ring true enough to their real-life counterparts while developing in new and intriguing ways.

Yet this is a different novel from its predecessor. Though a sequel to How Few Remain, Turtledove examines the war from a different perspective here, following events through original characters rather than historical ones. This gives him greater flexibility in his depiction of them, yet it is the characters that are the weakest part of the book. While the plotting in most of the story arcs is quite good at sustaining interest, the characters have a sameness about them, using many of the same phrases and slang when expressing themselves. This stands in stark contrast to his previous novel, in which each of the main characters he uses is vividly and distinctly realized, and makes for a weaker work than the excellent inaugural work. Nonetheless, readers interested in an engrossing work of alternative history will find much to enjoy in this story about a divided America plunging into the hell of a 'Great War.'
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great story, shame about a few innacuracies., 1 Jan 2001
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While I geatly enjoyed this book, and the other two in the series in terms of plot and character development I'm afraid that I have to nit pick on a few technical matters. As an author writing on military maters in this novel I feel Turtledove should have perhaps done some more reserch on a few matters.

Firstly the First Richmond Howitzers are equipped with copies of the French 75 field gun. As any artillery purist will tell you there is a big difference between a field gun and a howitzer in terms of their role. A glance at any one of Ian V. Hogg's books will explain this. Perhaps the First Richmond should have been equipped with copies of the British 4.5 mm howitzer (or if Turtledove insists on them having the 75 they should be the First Richmond Field Regiment, although in my opinion they would have done better to have had British 18-pounders which were superior to the French 75).

Secondly he depicts both Canadian cavalry, and the Conferderate cavalry, who seem to have modeled themselves on the British cavalry, as being equipped with carbines. In fact since the aftermath of the Boer War cavalry of the British Empire had been equipped with rifles (in fact the famous Short Lee-Enfield was designed with that arm in mind), as had the U.S cavalry. In this situation I would have imagined that the Condfedereates having adopted the British 1908 saber would also have adopted the pratice of carrying a rifle. On another related point cavalry carried their rifles on a bucket on the sadle, not on the back of the cavalry trooper.

Thirdly while I said that I enjoyed the plot I must take issue with one part: the U.S attack on Pearl Harbour. Whether or not the American ships were able to defeat those of the Royal Navy is imeterial, in the situation depicted they probably would have, what I have the most problem with is the fact that the American fleet is able to silence the British shore batteries. In the real world Great War both sides found this very hard to do. The Germans were not able to silence British shore batteries in their costal raids, while the British were not able to silence Turkish batteries during the naval attack on the Dardenelles. In both cases the shore batteries were able to repeatedly strike the ships. To return to Ian V. Hogg again, he provides a good description of the first example in Allied Artillery of World War One. I believe that the U.S fleet would have probably come off worst in any such engagement. I must also agree with one other reviewer that this book is spoiled by the fact that the U.S is always superior to its enemies. This and the technical points were the only things that kept it from getting five stars.

Overall apart from what I have said above this was a very enjoyable and readable book and I would recommend it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Empires of unending tedium.
Decline of the alternative history novel, part 17: Gone are the days when aspiring alternative-history writers wanted to be like Ward Moore or Philip K. Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating schadenfreude
The Great War: The American Front is the first in a series of four books examining an alternative history wherein the Confederacy won the Civil War and ends up allied to Britain... Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but it was spoilt by USA being superior to her enemies
This was the first Turtledove book I read and by the time I finished it, I was already looking for his World War series. Read more
Published on 1 Jul 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read but there was little to choose 'tween CSA & USA
I enjoyed this book a lot but I did find it difficult to find any sympathy for either of the American protagonists. Read more
Published on 27 April 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars A great concept, but Guns of the South revisited
I came to Harry Turtledove through Guns of the South, a very fine alternate history novel which taught us about our own world by showing the differences in another. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent alternate WWI drama..Turtledove knows his history
I'm a relative newcomer to the works of Harry Turtledove, the most recent master of Alternate Fiction. I have read a fair amount of his work as of late. Read more
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