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Blood and Iron (American Empire) (Paperback)

by Harry Turtledove (Author)
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  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: New English Library; New Ed edition (16 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340715529
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340715529
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 251,082 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash'


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'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) )

'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 )
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4.0 out of 5 stars The inter-war years and American Fascism, 29 Nov 2002
By S. Flaherty "steve3742" (Nottingham) - See all my reviews
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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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting segue into a new series by Turtledove..., 10 Jan 2002
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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.
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