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Title: The Great War: American Front by Harry Turtledove ISBN: 0-345-40560-9 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (113 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT START FOR THE GREAT WAR SERIES!!
Comment: A great book to start off a series! The book gives us a background on what's going on, before the war starts. When World War 1 begins in Europe, the civil war begins again in America. The big problem is that the U.S. is wedged between two fronts, with the Confederates in the south and Canada, being allied with Britian, France, Russia, and the Confederacy. The Confederates does a great breakthrough our capital of the United States and keep on advanceing on to the Susquahanna Valley in Pennsylvania. The front stretchs through West Virginia, Northern Kentucky, on the border of Kansas and Sequoya (Oklahoma), and into Mexico. The progress in Canada is slow and bloody. Harry Turtledove also introduces a civil war hero, who might be a madman, and is commanding the Army in Kentucky, which will get bloody also. As the book goes on, we see more and more characters poping up and will be important for the main characters, from the beginning of the book. The battleing isn't done on the land, but at sea. The U.S. is "single-handedly" defending the Pacific against the Japs, Limeys (British), and Canucks (Canadians) fleets. The main battleing, in the Pacific, takes place around the Sandwich Islands. The Confederates also goes as far as to take U.S. fishermen prisoner and exchanging them for Confederate sailors, but the problem is that one of the sailors who get captured is one of the main characters in the book, and his treatment in capitivity will be brutal. The blacks, who are free but are harassed by the southerners, start getting into with the Reds Revolution, near the end of the book, and are fueled by Marxism. So the Confederates deal with two fronts of their own also and the lost of man power. Sadly, there's no end to the fighting when the book goes from 1914 to 1915. But the Socialists and Mormons start up again. Socialists are getting ready to run for congress and presidency! While the Mormons have a uprising in the state of Utah, which makes the U.S. Armies send troops there to stop the uprising. With all of these events and characters and action, the book becomes fascinateing from page to page and makes you want to read the next book in the series and see what happens. Great book for a person that likes alternate history or fiction.
Rating: 4
Summary: It's a diffrent world
Comment: The Great War American Front was a very good story. From a big fan of alternate history I prefered this book and How Few Remain more then Guns of the South because Guns of the South isn't believable. In reading the other reviews most are under the impression the CSA, UK, and France would lose fairly soon to a USA, Germany, and Austria. I don't think that's so because if the CSA won its independence the USA would be totally different then we know it today. With a defeat like that the United States wouldn't have been so ambitious in the latter half of the 19th century in becoming a dominant power. Not to say the US isn't someone to reckon with. But not as we would know. Many are right about the trench warfare, and how it probably wouldn't have happened. I'd like to see more common historical happens to be mentioned in the following novels. For example if Britain and the CSA are close would the Titanic have sank, or would she have sailed to Norfolk or Charleston? What about the Lusitania and the unrestricted sinkings of merchant ships by the Germans. I am very intersted in the Red Revolution that seems to be bubbling in Dixie and how Russia fits into all this. Also it would be intresting to see a young Hitler somehow intangled into the story. Depending on how this war turns out it might prevent the Second Great War. Overall I am pleased with Mr. Turtledove's interpretation of an independent South and the world that resulted. I would like to see a detailed world map of that period to see who has what (i.e. Russian Alaska, British Hawaii) and also I would like to hear how the war is going in Europe.
Rating: 2
Summary: I couldn't finish it
Comment: The spotlight reviewer who gave it two stars is absolutely right: there are far too many characters in this thing. I had troubles keeping up with the storylines after about the tenth one! Its almost like Turtledove wanted to have several books in one, taking turns with each chapter. What's even worse is just that many of these characters I have zero interest in - some serve no real purpose and just exist, while others seem like basic archetypes.
I can't say the dialogue is terribly clever either. The one part with Jackson's relative was unbarable to read because it was such a typical "I am a high-class rich guy" conversation. The part where it explained a guy thought every foreign language was latin "even Jewish" was corny as well. I seriously wonder how Harry Turtledove has such a strong fanbase, because every time I venture to one of his books I find good ideas and poor delivery.
If perhaps it had stuck to one to three theaters of the war I could have enjoyed myself better. With the current narrative, it almost reads like Turtledove is making it up as he goes along.
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Title: How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove ISBN: 0345406141 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Great War: Breakthroughs by Harry Turtledove ISBN: 0345405641 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: American Empire: Blood and Iron by Harry Turtledove ISBN: 0345405668 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold by Harry Turtledove ISBN: 0345444221 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: American Empire: The Victorious Opposition by HARRY TURTLEDOVE ISBN: 034544423X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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