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ReviewsPRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE " Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history." - USA Today Settling Accounts: The Grapple " [A] magisterial saga of an alternate America . . . a profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history." - Booklist Settling Accounts: Drive to the East " First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove' s richly rearranged cultural and political landscape." - The Kansas City Star Settling Accounts: Return Engagement " Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background." - Kirkus Reviews, PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE " Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history. " - USA Today Settling Accounts: The Grapple " [A] magisterial saga of an alternate America . . . a profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history. " - Booklist Settling Accounts: Drive to the East " First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove ' s richly rearranged cultural and political landscape. " - The Kansas City Star Settling Accounts: Return Engagement " Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background. " - Kirkus Reviews, PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE "Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history." -USA Today Settling Accounts: The Grapple "[A] magisterial saga of an alternate America . . . a profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history." -Booklist Settling Accounts: Drive to the East "First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove's richly rearranged cultural and political landscape." -The Kansas City Star Settling Accounts: Return Engagement "Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background." -Kirkus Reviews, PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE "Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history." USA Today Settling Accounts: The Grapple "[A] magisterial saga of an alternate America . . . a profoundly thoughtful masterpiece of alternate history." Booklist Settling Accounts: Drive to the East "First-time readers can jump in and enjoy Turtledove's richly rearranged cultural and political landscape." The Kansas City Star Settling Accounts: Return Engagement "Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background." Kirkus Reviews
SynopsisThe undisputed master of alternate history brings the Settling Accounts series--one of the greatest sagas ever to portray an America that almost was--to a thunderous conclusion., Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA's worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove's compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has come at last. The third war in sixty years, this one yet unnamed: a grinding, horrifying series of hostilities and atrocities between two nations sharing the same continent and both calling themselves Americans. At the dawn of 1944, the United States has beaten back a daredevil blitzkrieg from the Confederate Statesand a terrible new genie is out of history's bottle: a bomb that may destroy on a scale never imagined before. In Europe, the new weapon has shattered a stalemate between Germany, England, and Russia. When the trigger is pulled in America, nothing will be the same again. With visionary brilliance, Harry Turtledove brings to a climactic conclusion his monumental, acclaimed drama of a nation's tragedy and the men and women who play their roleswith valor, fear, and follyon history's greatest stage., Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA's worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove's compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has come at last. The third war in sixty years, this one yet unnamed: a grinding, horrifying series of hostilities and atrocities between two nations sharing the same continent and both calling themselves Americans. At the dawn of 1944, the United States has beaten back a daredevil blitzkrieg from the Confederate States-and a terrible new genie is out of history's bottle: a bomb that may destroy on a scale never imagined before. In Europe, the new weapon has shattered a stalemate between Germany, England, and Russia. When the trigger is pulled in America, nothing will be the same again. With visionary brilliance, Harry Turtledove brings to a climactic conclusion his monumental, acclaimed drama of a nation's tragedy and the men and women who play their roles-with valor, fear, and folly-on history's greatest stage.
LC Classification NumberPS3570.U76S477 2007