Another improvement this book has over its predecessor is its sense of scale with USA soldiers fighting in Canada and DC with the Confederates. $16.99. Shelving menu Bitter over their treatment by the whites, and fueled by a rhetoric of Taking advantage of the Confederacy's plight, the U.S. First Army marches into western Tennessee after slogging through western Kentucky, while the C.S. An interesting concept but some of the character development was limited. This book had me flipping page after page, and I burned through it in just about a week or so. Despite the flagrant violation of War Department doctrine, Custer's success with the barrels led to a radical change in US tactics as Philadelphia reluctantly endorsed Custer's methods. On one occasion, Medal of Honor recipient Gordon McSweeney staged a daring raid in which he singlehandedly destroyed a Confederate monitor with a demolition charge; he was later killed in a bombardment delivered by a similar monitor.

When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the Un… Want to Read. American Front (The Great War series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Turtledove, Harry.

Not as thoroughly awesome as How Few Remain, the first in this series, but quite engaging. But wheras that volume included ample interesting and easily identifiable chapters using historical figures, this one tries to cover a vast military front -- from western Canada to the east, from Oklahoma to Maine, and many points in between -- with much less easily recognized characters. However alternative history is always fascinating and the author is brilliant at writing it! In addition, the US-held areas were ruined with no usable roads or railroads; in contrast the Canadians were supplied and reinforced by an intact transport system. 0345405609 The Great War is an alternate history trilogy novel by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain.It is part of Turtledove's Southern Victory series of novels.

Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Mit "American Front" eröffnet Turtledove seine "The Great War" Trilogie. River gunboats are an example of a brown-water navy, warships designed to operate in shallow water on rivers or close to shore. The army adopted German-style uniforms (though green-gray in color), officers were trained at German academies, and US-German fleet exercises were common. Allies and colonies in other parts of the world ensured that Africa, Asia and South America also became theaters of war. New countries created as a result of this war included the following: Newsgroup: alt.books.harry-turtledove The "amount" of perspective was, to be honest, somewhat overwhelming, because the sheer amount of personalities involved was a bit too high. At one point during the campaign, the Mormons detonated a large mine under the US forces' trench near Ogden, destroying an entire division and forcing the other to hold tight until reinforcements arrive--further disrupting US plans for other theaters. Nothing symbolized this so much as In an effort to avoid defeat in the expected conflict, the US emulated Imperial Germany in several ways, chiefly the introduction of peacetime conscription and the rationing of key commodities such as coal. A hexalogy describing an alternate World War II which begins in 1938 over Czechoslovakia. Unable to use neutral Brazilian waters, and facing land combat on her western and northeastern borders, Argentina cracked under the pressure. The outflanking move paid off; by the late summer the US Army was fighting on the outskirts of Toronto. The Gap.

Supervolcano Library: Checklist : Dedications: These Turtledove resources are not affiliated with this site. His historical research is exemplary, and he creates an alternate that is realistic and believable. Harry Turtledove’s The Great War: The American Front, is a fast paced alternate history novel focusing on World War One after a confederate victory in the United States Civil War. My first issue with this book is that it is labeled to be the the first book in the series... turns out that it is actually the 2nd one and I am sure a lot of my confusion comes from the fact that he lays out his "alternative" reality in book 1. Crosstime Traffic. I was also fascinated by the way alliances fell out in this version of history - very plausible given the events of How Few Remain, but it seriously messes with my good guy-bad guy ideas of World War I.

If not, the reader bores quickly. The following is a list of the fictional wars known to have taken place in one of the fictional works of Harry Turtledove and/or Laura Frankos. Ugh. Winnipeg had already fallen, cutting Canada in half, and Quebec City was taken by the Americans and a pair of regiments raised from the newly-created Republic of Quebec. Complete Set Series Lot of 3 Great War books by Harry Turtledove American Front. Early in the war, it was the practice of commerce raiders and submersible captains to halt enemy ships and allow their crews to take to their lifeboats before their vessel was to be sunk. The experiences on both sides of the war, both on the battlefield and trying to maintain family and peacetime work, gives a moving picture of what war does to everyone.

The greatest battles in North America took place in the more populous east. In what was probably the only real flash of genius Custer had in his lifetime, the old general realized that the best way of using barrels was in one great mass rather than as infantry support weapons. Bitter over their treatment by the whites, and fueled by a rhetoric of Taking advantage of the Confederacy's plight, the U.S. First Army marches into western Tennessee after slogging through western Kentucky, while the C.S. Now able to draw supplies from Brazilian ports, the US-led fleet severed the Argentinian lifeline to Britain. After the South wins the civil war in book one, how does ww1 go? Wilson's speech, given in a tightly-packed public square of A separate U.S. invasion of Sonora, intended to capture the Confederacy's sole Pacific Ocean port of Both American offensives soon stall, however; the U.S. armies find it difficult to push south, and the Army of Northern Virginia is slowed by the winter of 1914–15.

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