The Great War: Breakthroughs
by Harry Turtledove
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Author: Harry TurtledoveEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07-03
ISBN: 0345405641
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: "Fake" History at its best!
Summary: 4 Stars
This entire series was inventive, informative, and entertaining. The fake world war on American soil captures the drama and carnage of the real one. In a way it makes the idea of a world war more real to the American reader because no man's land is in Virginia, Richmond gets air raided, Washington D.C. gets shelled to bits and fierce fighting takes place all over the Mason Dixon in places that we recognize. The characters that Turtledove follows throughout the conflict cover the entire geographic and class spectrum, and through them we watch the war and its effect on different people, and Turtledove is a suprising master at making his characters powerfully evoke sympathy or outrage from his readers. Somewhere on the dust jacket in one of the books in this series it says that this alternate history helps us to understand the real history better. I agree. The major detraction for me in the stories were characters making strangely prescient statements about the future of military technology and world events. But overall this series is enjoyable and highly recommended.
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