| Blood and Iron Contributor(s): Turtledove, Harry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345405668 ISBN-13: 9780345405661 Publisher: Del Rey Books OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK ONE Twice 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 ownfaiths, persuasions, and private demons--into the troubled times between the wars. "From the Hardcover edition. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Southern Victory: American Empire |
| Physical Information: 1.45" H x 4.21" W x 6.89" (0.70 lbs) 656 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "Blood and Iron is a masterpiece."--Sci Fi Weekly World War I--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it 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. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists. With Socialists rising to power in the U.S., and a dangerous fanatic in the Confederacy preaching a doctrine of hate, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war. "A master storyteller as well as a trained historian with an imagination . . . Turtledove] has succeeded in taking title as the premier writer in alternate history], relentlessly asking what if one or two key events in our reality happened differently. The result is fascinating."--Houston Chronicle "Turtledove is a master at weaving details of ordinary life into a much bigger canvas to produce a world that so easily could have been our own. It] is what keeps readers coming back for more."--Tulsa World |