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From "the master of alternate history" comes a new trilogy that reimagines a mid-20th century in which General MacArthur, without bothering to consult President Truman, detonates nuclear warheads in several Manchurian cities after China enters the Korean War. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the 20th century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed.
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This Bomb's a dud
- By Dallas Huybregts on 09-27-16
By: Harry Turtledove
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The Guns of the South
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
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January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking - and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantities to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.
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Loved the book but...
- By Tami A. on 10-28-16
By: Harry Turtledove
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American Front
- The Great War, Book 1
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
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Hugo Award winner Harry Turtledove is the master of alternate history. In American Front he envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil. The United States and Germany clash with the Confederacy, France, and Britain as the machines of modern warfare litter the landscape with carnage. Meanwhile, oppressed southern blacks head toward a fateful confrontation.
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Cassette Recording?
- By Robert on 07-23-20
By: Harry Turtledove
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Return Engagement
- Settling Accounts, Book 1
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
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In 1914, they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades, a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America. Now, Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory. But behind the façade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to go off. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse.
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Need Guidall back!!
- By William on 06-29-16
By: Harry Turtledove
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Days of Infamy: A Novel of Alternate History
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications.
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Could not finish it
- By Marion M Miller on 01-09-14
By: Harry Turtledove
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Hitler's War
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
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The New York Times best-selling master of alternate history delivers the captivating first novel in his new World War II series. Harry Turtledove imagines how the war in Europe would have ended had British prime minister Chamberlain refused to allow Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland.
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Interesting
- By B Daigle on 01-04-10
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Bombs Away
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Henry Stozier
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
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From "the master of alternate history" comes a new trilogy that reimagines a mid-20th century in which General MacArthur, without bothering to consult President Truman, detonates nuclear warheads in several Manchurian cities after China enters the Korean War. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the 20th century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed.
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This Bomb's a dud
- By Dallas Huybregts on 09-27-16
By: Harry Turtledove
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The Guns of the South
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
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January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking - and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantities to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47.
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Loved the book but...
- By Tami A. on 10-28-16
By: Harry Turtledove
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Colonization: Second Contact
- Colonization, Book 1
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 28 hrs and 7 mins
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In the extraordinary Worldwar tetralogy, set against the backdrop of World War II, Harry Turtledove, whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Hugo-winning master of alternate SF," wove an explosive saga of world powers locked in conflict against an enemy from the stars.
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A great title poorly presented
- By Magnus on 06-27-12
By: Harry Turtledove
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Worldwar: In the Balance
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 26 hrs and 33 mins
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War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa...the fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy came.
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Awesome
- By W on 03-29-10
By: Harry Turtledove
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How Few Remain
- A Novel of the Second War Between the States
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
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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 despair. 1881: A generation after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once more 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 in 1881.
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A Civil War Alternate History Classic! Fantastic!
- By Michael on 10-06-12
By: Harry Turtledove
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Supervolcano
- Eruption
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe in which humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world.
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Jerky horrible narration.
- By Ann on 04-23-12
By: Harry Turtledove
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Opening Atlantis
- A Novel of Alternate History
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing to brave the wonders of the unexplored land.
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poor writing/boring reader
- By Rhonda on 01-27-08
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Three Miles Down
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean—and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems.
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Mistitled
- By Peter Wombat on 01-16-23
By: Harry Turtledove
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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In the 21st century, Germany's Third Reich continues to thrive after its victory in World War II - keeping most of Europe and North America under its heel. But within the heart of the Nazi regime, a secret lives. Under a perfect Aryan facade, Jews survive - living their lives, raising their families, and fearing discovery....
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One of his best works
- By brian on 03-31-19
By: Harry Turtledove
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Joe Steele
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
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President Herbert Hoover has failed America. The Great Depression that rose from the ashes of the 1929 stock market crash still casts its dark shadow over the country. Despairing and desperate, the American people hope one of the potential Democratic candidates - New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and California congressman Joe Steele - can get the nation on the road to recovery.
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Turtledove Knocks It Out Of The Park!
- By Michael on 05-01-15
By: Harry Turtledove
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Beyond the Gap
- A Novel of the Opening of the World
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, its the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice.
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Juvenile
- By Richard on 07-02-07
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Alpha and Omega
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz, a secular archaeologist from Los Angeles, expects during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America, a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, and events conspire to place a team of archaeologists in the tunnels deep under the Temple Mount.
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Terribly misinformed
- By Stretchr on 09-27-20
By: Harry Turtledove
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Wages of Sin
- By: Harry Turtledove
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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The 'Wasting' (HIV) has caused devastating destruction throughout the known world and severely limited the development of technology as well, creating a mid-nineteenth century England and London almost unrecognizable to us. This is the world Viola is born into. Extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books which she reads, she dreams of traveling to far-off places, something she can only do via books since her actions and movements are severely restricted by law custom.
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Enough Already
- By JohnnyRaved on 12-14-23
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1942
- A Novel
- By: Robert Conroy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was a resounding success - except for one detail: A second bombing mission, to destroy crucial oil storage facilities, was aborted that day. Now, in this gripping and stunning work of alternate history, Robert Conroy reimagines December 7, 1941, to include the attack the Japanese didn't launch, and what follows is a thrilling tale of war, resistance, sacrifice, and courage. For when Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sees how badly the United States has been ravaged in a two-pronged strike, he devises another, more daring proposal.
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Pretty Good but...
- By Gary H on 01-25-20
By: Robert Conroy
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- Rodney Carnahan
- 10-17-24
Missing Something
It was a well described world, but something was missing. Possibly a climax? Most of the characters in the story were to put it bluntly, Boring.
This could have been an epic story, but I'm just left feeling Meh about it.
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- Brett
- 02-13-19
Transistional entry in Southern Victory series
The Great War is over and the winners and losers scatter in varying directions. A few too many romances in the many subplots for my taste. But several very big dramatic moments save the day. WW2 looms.
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- Director Chris
- 05-15-23
Good Story
I love how the story is going and the building of the climax in the story.
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- Edqp
- 09-06-22
It's okay
The concept is good, but there isn't enough story at the end to make me want to read/listen to the next books in the series. The Narration is great.
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- brian
- 05-24-15
"Freedom!"
Would you consider the audio edition of American Empire to be better than the print version?
I would. Excellent narration.
What did you like best about this story?
The plotline.
Which scene was your favorite?
Featherston taking over as leader of the Freedom Party.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No extreme reaction whatsoever.
Any additional comments?
A must-have for any Harry Turtledove and alternate history fans.
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- Michael Ayers
- 10-28-22
Tip Toe thru The tulips with me.
narrative was good.loves Harry Turtledove books. I got this book as part of series. thanks
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- emdefmek
- 06-13-08
Please offer more Turtledove books
Great author, easily the best alternate history story in the genre
please release the rest of this series!
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- Ian Pung
- 09-21-22
Another great entry in the Southern Victory series.
For a book that takes place in peacetime and not in a full blown war, this book still managed to be entertaining for the majority of the time.
Turtledove does a great job using influences from real history to give this alternate timeline a realistic feel. Like the Freedom party’s struggle to rise to power, the Great Depression taking place in the CSA, and so on.
One of my few gripes with this was the timing of the audio. Normally the spacing between sections of the story and transitions between characters is more defined. Letting the silence linger for a few moments before going on. This time, though, a lot of the transitions are so fast I almost get tricked into thinking we’re still talking about the same person. So, a little spacing out wouldn’t hurt. Other than that, any of the other few complaints I have are too much of a nitpick to be worth mentioning.
The story’s progress in this book feels like a slow burn. It may lack speed at times, (especially in a 24+ hour long book), but you can feel the rising tension that will pay off in the next book. And it makes me anxious to find out more about this world. And some of the payoffs and resolutions that have already happened for some of our characters in this book are pretty satisfying. I won’t say what, in order to avoid spoilers.
Overall, another great entry in the Southern Victory series. And I look forward to what the rest of the series has in store.
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- MarilynArms
- 11-08-09
Well written & thought provoking
I have read the whole series, although the first book in the series is, unfortunately, not available through Audible (but all the rest are). Very well written, researched, believable, complex and thought provoking. If you are a history buff, or, for that matter, a science fiction reader, this will really scratch a whole bunch of itches all at the same time. Guidall is, as usual, excellent.
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- Gulliver Porpoiseknuckle
- 08-23-19
The Master of Alternate History!
I started reading Harry Turtledove with The World War series. As someone who truly enjoys the alternate history sub-genre I have read pretty much all of his books.
His work is a lot of fun to read and has that addictive quality that compels you to pick up the next book in the series. His writing style, particularly his dialogue is quite distinctive and can at times become repetitive but people who enjoy his work are able to overlook this because his formula is solid and he avoids pretentious flights of fancy.
The American Empire series picks up after the end of World War One in a universe where The Confederacy won The Civil War. In the aftermath of a U.S. victory over The C.S.A. the story renders this universe through the viewpoint of several characters from The U.S. and C.S.A. The viewpoints encompass all walks of life and include historical figures. The story tells a more or less beat for beat analogue of post WW1 Germany including an autocratic psychopath and a chilling version of an American Nazi party. The book and the entire "Southern Victory" arc work because it rings of plausibility. It allows a glimpse into a world that never was and connects the dots in a way that allows you to believe that this world could have easily existed. For fans of alternate history this checks the most important box.
For a certain reader/listener this will be a very satisfying experience. I hope this review gives such a person the impetus to have that experience.
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