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"Blood and Iron" is the first of the author's interwar trilogy. It's set between 1918 and 1923. The series is based on the idea that the Confederacy won at Antietam, won the Civil War, won what is called the "Second Mexicn War" 20 years later, and while allied with hardly mentioned France and Britain lost to a Teddy Roosevelt-led USA allied with the German Empire ("Kaiser Bill" is still in charge Over There as the trilogy commences).

This series is pure alt-hist. No invading space aliens, no magic; and it contains all the plusses (and alas the minuses) Mr. Turtledove's readers have come to expect. We have the usual vast array of characters, most of whom are carried over from the WWI trilogy, from different social classes and different parts of the alternate world (among my favorites are Lucien Galtier, a farmer in what is now the free repubic of Quebec and the delightfully revengeful South Carolinian Anne Colleton, who's lost her plantation to an uprising by black communists in the previous trilogy and now schemes with a crackpot facist, Jake Featherston, to gain power). Most of the characters are fictional, although Upton Sinclair appears here as a Socialist candidate for president of the USA and, in the most interesting flight of his imagination, the author imagines General Custer had never met up with disaster at Little Big Horn and has survived until the 1920s, where he is engaged in fighting terrorism in USA-occupied Anglophone Canada at the age of 80.

Those are the plusses. As for the minuses, well--Mr. Turtledove just can't do sex and he really shouldn't bother (just put in three dots when the hot stuff starts and move right along please) and while he tries to be helpful to the reader, reminding who this particular character is (and some of them reappear only 80 pages apart), we do not need to be told that Custer's adjutant is overweight every time he puts in an appearance, nor that Boston factory-worker Sylvia Enos paints red rings on yellow galoshes. Then, too, while the problems the author poses are often fascinating, his solutions are sometimes too simple (a criminal case is made to disappear with amazing ease).

Fans of alt. hist. in general, and fans of Mr. Turtledove are unlikely to be deterred by these minor annoyances, however.


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The Center Cannot Hold American Empire Book Two Southern Victory American Empire Harry Turtledove 9780345444226 Books Reviews

I love to read Alternative Histories, most especially anything dealing with the South and the Civil War. This installment in the American Empire Series continues the strong tradition that Turtledove has established. I found it to be one of the better books in this series and find the character development quite fascinating.
Grandson loves it
If your a fan of this series than this is another political part of the story gearing up towards the next war.
This second volume of the American Empire series covers the 1920s and the first part of the 1930s in an alternate America where the South won the Civil war and another war between the states in the 1880s. America is getting its own back with a victory over the Confederacy in the Great War, World War One. This book covers the years of recovery for an occupied Canada and the Confederacy. Socialist presidents cause a depression in the United States, and the world goes on and on and on. This book covered a longer time period than is usual for Turtledove, and it frankly isn't as interesting with a war around to keep things going. Oh yeah, there is a war, but strangely, no one seems to really notice. I hope this is just a phase and we can get back to the good stuff soon.
It was a good book but definitely the second book of a trilogy feel to it. It’s interesting that the first carrier battle in this timeline happened almost a decade before in happened in ours
I love the story and the series, but have a few problems with this book itself. It's very repetitive and seems to be stuffed with lots of filler and unnecessary noise. After the first quarter of the book I found myself skimming or outright skipping entire paragraphs of just crap that wasn't needed. the book constantly repeats itself and tells the reader about characters and their pasts that are already well-established. I found myself repeating "I know, damnit!," many times when I was told something for the fourth or fifth time a chapter brought back a character that has been in the series for the past several hundred pages- or even since the last trilogy (The Great War). Much of this book is quite redundant.
This is yet another excellent title in an intriguing series featuring an alternate history in which the Confederacy won the Civil War. It then goes through the constant struggles between the USA and CSA up to and through a WWI in which the USA sides with a victorious Germany.
This installment takes us from the late teens (post WWI)through the roaring twenties and into the Great Depression. One without FDR.
While this title, like others in the series gives background on what has already occurred it is highly advisable for beginners to go to first title and start there. The background is more of a refresher for those of us who have followed the series.
Turtledove does an excellent job in tracking a multitude of different storylines and charactors. He seemlessly blends them all together and in some places overlaps them without causing confusion like so many other authors.
His imagination combined with historical facts and events are a pleasure to follow. The storyline continues to parallel in a way what occurred in this reality but with a twist. All the lines seem to be based on subtle human tendancies. It is quite easy to see how these could have happened here in this reality. Including an alternate Hitler figure based in the CSA who targets blacks rather than Jews.
I cannot wait for the next installment and see how the budding Hitler figure reacts along with the potential cold war between Germany and the USA. Not to mention a rising Japan and a Canada which is under USA occupation.
"Blood and Iron" is the first of the author's interwar trilogy. It's set between 1918 and 1923. The series is based on the idea that the Confederacy won at Antietam, won the Civil War, won what is called the "Second Mexicn War" 20 years later, and while allied with hardly mentioned France and Britain lost to a Teddy Roosevelt-led USA allied with the German Empire ("Kaiser Bill" is still in charge Over There as the trilogy commences).

This series is pure alt-hist. No invading space aliens, no magic; and it contains all the plusses (and alas the minuses) Mr. Turtledove's readers have come to expect. We have the usual vast array of characters, most of whom are carried over from the WWI trilogy, from different social classes and different parts of the alternate world (among my favorites are Lucien Galtier, a farmer in what is now the free repubic of Quebec and the delightfully revengeful South Carolinian Anne Colleton, who's lost her plantation to an uprising by black communists in the previous trilogy and now schemes with a crackpot facist, Jake Featherston, to gain power). Most of the characters are fictional, although Upton Sinclair appears here as a Socialist candidate for president of the USA and, in the most interesting flight of his imagination, the author imagines General Custer had never met up with disaster at Little Big Horn and has survived until the 1920s, where he is engaged in fighting terrorism in USA-occupied Anglophone Canada at the age of 80.

Those are the plusses. As for the minuses, well--Mr. Turtledove just can't do sex and he really shouldn't bother (just put in three dots when the hot stuff starts and move right along please) and while he tries to be helpful to the reader, reminding who this particular character is (and some of them reappear only 80 pages apart), we do not need to be told that Custer's adjutant is overweight every time he puts in an appearance, nor that Boston factory-worker Sylvia Enos paints red rings on yellow galoshes. Then, too, while the problems the author poses are often fascinating, his solutions are sometimes too simple (a criminal case is made to disappear with amazing ease).

Fans of alt. hist. in general, and fans of Mr. Turtledove are unlikely to be deterred by these minor annoyances, however.