Book description
This is second part of the Great War trilogy (after
American Front) and the 4th volume in Harry Turtledove's
epic alternative history of the USA, in which the South is victorious
in the American Civil War. It began with The Guns of the
South, continues How Few Remain and goes on in
Turtledove's American Empire and Settling Accounts
sequences.
It's 1915, the Great War is intensifying, and the time of darkness has
come. The slaves of the south have risen against their masters, taken on
the creed of Bolshevism and are attacking the Confederacy from within.
But the United States remains pinned between their weakened southern
rival, and their other bitter enemy, Canada. But both Presidents -
Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson -
are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost.
Meanwhile the new and poisonous weapons of tanks, gas and planes are
starting to make their presence felt at the front. It's total war for
the first time in human history and it's ordinary people on both sides
who are the ones to begin suffer . . . 'The wizard of If.'
Chicago Sun-Times
'The standard-bearer for alternate history.'
USA Today
'Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's
authentic modern masters . . . totally fascinating.' Harry Turtledove
has lived in Southern California all his life He has a Ph. D. in history
from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA,
California State Fullerton and California State University, Los Angeles.
He has written many works of speculative fiction and fantasy. He is
married to the novelist Laura Frankos and they have three daughters.
