Blood & Iron (American Empire, #1)

Posted on 09 April 2017 by Harry Turtledove

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 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, 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 From the Hardcover edition. New Read Kindle ePUB Blood & Iron (American Empire, #1) Author Harry Turtledove – kino-fada.fr I realized only in the middle of this that, while it s part 1 of a trilogy, it s also really book 7 of a 9 book set So I was a little lost for a bit, but was eventually after to figure out exactly what was going on.What Turtledove s done with this series is set up an alternate history of the United States one in which the Confederate States of America won the US Civil War, and were able to establish themselves as a significant political and economic force....This is the first book of a trilogy that s actually the middle trilogy of a 9 book Series Think of it as The New Hope Ep 4.The series is the Timeline 191 , in which the South wins the Civil War, and battles the North in WW1 and WW2.This book takes place after the Great War The US beats the Confederacy, and imposes sanctions and reparations, similar to what happened to Germany after WW1.It sets the stage for a tyrannical ruler in the South, and a nationalistic fever which leads to the WW2.T This is the first book of a trilogy that s actually the middle trilogy of a 9 book Series Think of it as The New Hope Ep 4.The series is the Timeline 191 , in which the South wins the Civil War, and battles the North in WW1 and WW2.This book takes place after ...This series continues to be as captivating as ever I would say this volume of the series was even better than the previous, which kind of felt like it was dragging on a bit there at the end of the war It was pretty mesmerizing in a horrifying way to see the watch the Freedom parties shooting star It was also amazing to see how easily that star was knocked back down to eart...I ll start off by saying that this is actually the second time I have tried to read this book.When I was in high school and early college I completed Turtledove s Great War series Naturally reading Blood and Iron and the rest of the American Empire series would be a given However, I hit a bit of stumbling block When I started ready BI, the authors structure for his chapters threw me off even though the GW novels were similar The long chapters became and issue and I tabled the book.Fla I ll start off by saying that this is actually the second time I have tried to read this book.When I was in high school and early college I completed Turtledove s Great War series Naturally reading Blood and Iron and the rest of the Ame...The Great War has officially ended with CSA surrendered to USA and it was forced to pay reparations and saw its military dismantled After being humiliated twice in war, USA finally enacted its revenge on its southern neighbour Life in the south seemed to be out of hope, with its very social structure broken and the economy got into inflation Against this situation, a new political power rose in south The Freedom Party, fueled by its hatreds on both niggers and planter aristocrats, proppelled The Great War has officially ended with CSA surrendered to USA and it was forced to pay reparations and saw its military dismantled After being humiliated twice in war, USA finally enacted its revenge on its southern neighbour Life in the south seemed to be out...A little slowIt was a bit slow in the first three quarters of the book, lots of politics and not much action The last quarter, I couldn t put it downEvenon that timeline.Why am I reading this book This is the first volume of the American Empire trilogy, which is the sequel to The Great War trilogy, which is a sequel to How Few Remain I think that makes it the fifth volume of a 11 or so volume series Did I mention the trilogy or whateverlogy that follows American Empire What can I say Mr Turtledove has created some interesting characters and he hasn t killed them all off yet So we have Blood Iron The Great War is over and folks are dealing with th Why am I reading this book This is the first volume of the American Empire trilogy, which is the sequel to The Great War trilogy, which is a sequel to How Few Remain I think that makes it the fifth volume of a 11 or so volume series Did I mention the trilogy or whateverlogy that follows American Emp...This book has some interesting ideas and some fantastically bad writing The events described in this alternate time line are interesting, even if they are blatantly near exact historical parallels with different countries names slapped on them He does a fine job of ripping of other histories and retooling them that the blatant parallelism works and is interesting What doesn t work is this man s writing This has some of the absolute worst dialog I have ever read All of his characters have no This book has some interesting ideas and some fantastically bad writing The events described in this alternate time line are interesting, even if they are blatantly near exact historical parallels with different countries names slapped on them He does a fine job of ripping of other histories and retooling them that the blatant parallelism works and is interesting What doesn t work is this man s writing ...I loved the creative premise and realism I am quite disappointed, however, because I just couldn t get into it I got about 100 pages into it and read about too many different loosely connected characters I was waiting for the story to take me somewhere but it just seemed to be working up to something it took too long I was looking at it as a chore to read, which made me stop reading it Too many characters The story was non linear it was all over the place I love Robert Conroy s alternati I loved the creative premise and realism I am quite disappointed, however, because I just couldn t get into it I got about 100 pages into it and read about too many different loosely connected characters I was waiting fo...

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09 April 2017

Harry Turtledove