American Empire: Blood & Iron
by Harry Turtledove
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Author: Harry TurtledoveEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-25
ISBN: 0345405668
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: Leading up to the next Great War
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first volume of Turtledove's AMERICAN EMPIRE trilogy, and the fifth book in the eleven-book series that began with How Few Remain.
This book picks up where BREAKTHROUGHS left off - right at the end of the Great War. BLOOD & IRON begins in late 1917/early 1918. Jake Featherston, an embittered ex-Sergeant in the Army of Northern Virginia's First Richmond Howitzers, is Turtledove's North American version of Adolf Hitler. (Instead of blaming all the Confederacy's woes on Jewish people the way Hitler did in Germany, Featherston points the finger at the CSA's African-American population.) The plot twist here is easy to follow, especially since Hitler ~won't~ come to power in Germany in Turtledove's alternate history timeline. (Germany and her U.S. ally were victorious over Great Britain, France, Russia and the Confederate States in this fictitious account of WWI.)
The harsh peace treaty the U.S. inflicts on the losers in this Great War only makes the desire for revenge stronger; the same way the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 made Germany thirst for revenge against her former foes. The postwar political upheaval in both the USA and CSA are interesting to follow, and will contribute greatly to the renewed hostilities that will happen during the SETTLING ACCOUNTS series.
All in all, a good addition to the series, and gives an intriguing viewpoint of what might have been.
Summary of American Empire: Blood & Iron
AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK ONETwice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The Confederate States, France, and England all fell. Russia self-destructed, and the Japanese, seeing that the cause was lost, retired to fight another day.
The Great War has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around most of the world. But nowhere is the peace more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders.
In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt refuses to return to pre-war borders. The scars of the past will not soon be healed. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists.
At this crucial moment in history, with Socialists rising to power in the U.S. under the leadership of presidential candidate Upton Sinclair, a dangerous fanatic is on the rise in the Confederacy, preaching a message of hate. And in Canada another man--a simple farmer--has a nefarious plan: to assassinate the greatest U.S. war hero, General George Armstrong Custer.
With tension on the seas high, and an army of Marxist Negroes lurking in the swamplands of the Deep South, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war. Harry Turtledove sends his sprawling cast of men and women--wielding their own faiths, persuasions, and private demons--into the troubled times between the wars.
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