How Few Remain

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From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the second Civil War It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair1881 A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once in the bloody throes of battle Furious over the annexation of key Mexican territory, the United States declared total war against the Confederate States of America once again But this was a new kind of war, fought on a lawless frontier where the blue and gray battled not only each other but the Apache, the outlaw, the French, and the English As Confederate General Stonewall Jackson again demonstrated his military expertise, the North struggled to find a leader who could prove his equal In the Second War Between the States, the times, the stakes, and the battle lines had changed and so would history New Download Books How Few Remain Author Harry Turtledove – kino-fada.fr 1.5 stars Pretty well written, but DRY as a desert Great setting for the future novels but this book was a SLOG, SLOG, SLOG to get through I will probably read the next book in the series at some point because I love the premise and I am obviously...RE READ REVIEW I m not sure what motivated me to read this one again As you can see by my review below, I was bored to tears by it the first time around I guess I just had a nagging feeling I didn t approach it correctly or expected something different Not hurting matters is the fact that I already bought the second book in the series and its concept WW1 fought between the CSA and USA is a great one Well, it certainly wasof a fun read this time around It s just not really about act RE READ REVIEW I m not sure what motivated me to read this one again As you can see by my review below, I was bored to tears by it the first time around I guess I just had a nagging feeling I didn t approach it correctly or expected something different Not hurting matters is the fact that I alr...This book really made me think I d read one of his other novels, Guns of the South, in which time travellers bring the AK 47 to the Confederacy, allowing them to win the Civil War.This novel was quite different It starts with a simple premise what if Lee s orders hadn t been lost and recovered by the North In Turtledove s ey...I consider myself a Civil War history nut One of the things that has always fascinated me is the fact that there are SO many what ifs So many things happened, as if by chance, that if they wouldn t have occurred the way they did, the entire war might have ended differently What if Lost Order No 191 was never lost and What if Stonewall Jackson had lived are two big ones many people have wondered about Here Harry Turtledove examines what might have happened if the Lost Order was nev I consider myself a Civil War history nut One of the things that has always fascinated me is the fact that there are SO many what ifs So many things happened, as if by chance, that if they wouldn t have occurred the way they did, the entire war might have ended differently What if Lost Order No 191 was never lost and What if Stonewall Jackson had lived are two big ones many people have wo...This is the first book in Harry Turtledove s alternate history TL 191 Timeline 191 series, which consists of this stand alone volume, plus two further trilogies, the American Front series and the American Empire series.The premise is that Special Order 191 thus TL 191 by General Robert Lee was not lost as in actual history, but was put into action and caused the defeat of Union forces Ultimately this caused the recognition of the Confederacy by Great Britain and France, creating two major A This is the first book in Harry Turtledove s alternate history TL 191 Timeline 191 series, which consists of this stand alone volume, plus two further trilogies, the American Front series and the American Empire series.The premise is that Special Order 191 thus TL 191 by General Robert Lee was not lost as in actual history, but was put into action and caused the defeat of Union forces Ultimately this caused the recognition of the Confederacy by Great Britain and France, creating two major American ...At first I was disappointed that the book focused almost exclusively on historical people, because I was interested in imagining what life would be like for the common person if the South had won the Civil War But I soon realized that the people who were made famous in our history weren t necessarily rising to fame in this alternative history Where would Mark Twain be without a defeated South A newspaper editor in San Francisco Where would Lincoln be if the North hadn t defeated the South A At first I was disappointed that the book focused almost exclusively on historical peo...I recently started listening to books on CD in my car The second one I worked through is How Few Remain, which is an alternate history novel based on the assumption that the South won the Civil War First of all, I have a problem with the plausibility of the premise I don t think one minor event as in the book could have changed the course of the war I think the industrial might of the North pre determined the outcome I was glad to see an essay in the book Alternate Gettysburgs from a pr I recently started listening to books on CD in my car The second one I worked through is How Few Remain, which is an alternate history novel based on the assumption that the South won the Civil War First of all, I have a ...A highly enjoyable and thoroughly researched alt history jaunt that explores the repercussions of a Confederate victory during the Civil War The book jumps between perspectives on both sides of the conflict, and is wonderfully nuanced People are people, and are complex creatures though Custer is the easiest one to hate, no question I do wish there had been some female perspectives as well, but I understand why there were not because of the tight military and political focus, mostly on men A highly enjoyable and thoroughly researched alt history jaunt that explores...All fiction asks what if What if a boy named Huck Finn ran away with a slave named Jim and sailed the Mississippi Science Fiction and Fantasy do this to an even greater extent What if a scientist was able to re animate a human corpse using lightning Within Sci Fi Fantasy the sub genre of Alternative History takes actual events from History and asks what if they had happened differently What if Hitler s Germany had won World War II Harry Turtledove is considered the master of Al All fiction asks what if What if a boy named Huck Finn ran away with a slave named Jim and sailed the Mississippi Science Fiction and Fantasy do this to an even greater extent What if a scientist was able to re animate a human corpse using lightning Within Sci Fi Fantasy the sub genre of Alternative History takes actual events from History and asks what if they had happened differently What if Hitler s Germany had won World War II Harry Turtledove is considered the master of Alternative History and in this novel he asks What if The North rises again in the stunning saga of the Second Civil War It s been a generation since the South defeated the North in the Civil War, and a disgraced Abraham Lincoln now roams the United States preaching the gospel of socialism Meanwhile, the Confederate States have purchased territories from the Empire of Mexico This would extend the CSA s rule from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the United ...Alternate history is such a complicated but interesting field of writing I love imagining the world as it might have been, and from Turtledove swild flights of fantasy The World War II series where aliens invade in 1942, for instance to hispointed, alternate for the sake of reading historical figures pieces like the excellent Guns of the South he proves himself a thorough historian and an imaginative fiction writer.I have my issues with the way Turtledove likes to write from s Alternate history is such a complicated but interesting field of writing I love imagining the world as it might have been, and from Turtledove swild flights of fantasy The World War II series where aliens invade in 1942, for instance to hispointed, alternate for the sake of reading historical figures pieces like the excellent Guns of the South he proves himself a thorough historian and an imaginative fiction writer.I have my issues with the way Turtledove likes to write from so many perspectives, but appreciate the wide view it gives us, even if some very interesting characters seem to suffer for it Poor Sherman in this novel and perhaps eventragic, poor General Grant I am torn between his fate in the novel or in real life being worse This is a book that reads history in a way that has the US building on the weaknesses it learned from the early years of the Civil War instead of the lessons it would learn in the latter years, once the army found its footing andimportant...

How Few Remain
  • English
  • 08 February 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 596 pages
  • 0345406141
  • Harry Turtledove
  • How Few Remain