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    In at the Death
    In at the Death
    In at the Death
    Audiobook25 hours

    In at the Death

    Written by Harry Turtledove

    Narrated by Paul Costanzo

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    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 U.S.A.'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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 13, 2016
    ISBN9781515976998
    In at the Death
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    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the “master of alternate history,” and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.

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    • 3/5
      At last the interesting strand of Alternate History that began with "How Few Remain", is over. The South is definitively conquered and the USA is re-united at last. Featherstone is dead, and the world is left in an ugly scramble to obtain nuclear weapons. Japan bestrides the Western Pacific, and the American Federals are snarling at their erstwhile allies the Germans. But Turtledove lets go of the series at this point, as the probabilities are now beyond the interest of his audience, I suspect. I like this series best of Turtledove's works.
    • 4/5
      Yes, this is the end. After eleven volumes, no more books are planned for this series, a look at how American history deviated from ours after a Confederate victory at the Battle of Antietam and how a diminished United States of America became ensnared in European wars earlier than in our time.This book is the best in the series since the first, How Few Remain. Turtledove has had, from the very beginning of his career in alternate history, a sometimes annoying tendency to simply replay, in the context of an alternate history, events from our timeline. While there are plenty of WWII analogs throughout this series, the major ones being Jake Featherston equals Hitler, Pittsburgh equals Stalingrad, and death camps for blacks equals Jewish Holocaust, the story deviates from expectations in several ways which I will not spoil.The lives of several characters are satisfyingly -- or, at least, conclusively -- resolved. Other characters, as you would expect taking any slice of historical time, are left with unpleasant memories or craving their old wartime lives. Through sheer accumulation of detail and revolving sections where the world is seen through the eyes of a viewpoint character, we've built up quite a lot of empathy for these characters. We understand them if not always approve of them. Two scenes stand out in that regard: Pinkard encounters an old black co-worker of his sent to the death camp that Pinkard directed, and a character we are fond of participates in a spur of the moment atrocity against civilians in the occupied Confederacy.Given the title and trajectory of the series, it's hardly a spoiler to reveal that a great deal of the book is about what to do with the conquered Confederate States of America. Turtledove has explored this territory before with another story called "Must and Shall", but this book is even darker than that work. It is not at all clear that the former CSA will ever be integrated into the United States. And, while there is a logic to the casual slaughter of surrendered soldiers, the taking of civilian hostages and their occasional execution, that makes it no less jarring to see American troops in a very WWII context acting that way. And, with the question of "crimes against humanity, Turtledove reminds us not only of the necessity of rendering punishment but the hypocrisy of doing it in the framework of ex post facto law.Towards the end of the novel, there is a nice scene where a character contemplates the contingency of history, what would have happened if Jake Featherston had simply taken another Richmond street and never fatefully encountered the Freedom Party his anger, drive, and intelligence almost made the equal of America.It is a tribute to Turtledove's skill that, while I have complained about other books in this series, I will miss not visiting the future of this world and seeing how America fares in its quest to reunite its broken parts and find a secure place in the new international order.
    • 4/5
      At last! The final volume of the Settling Accounts tetralogy which is the final section of the eleven volume Timeline-191 saga. One could argue that this book sees the end of two wars. The first is the "Second Great War", or World War Two, as we called it in our reality. It's the final conflict between the greater population and resources of the United States of America and whatever secret weapons the Confederate States of America might be able to pull out of their collective hat. This book also offers, one could say, the end of the War Between the States. There is a definite end of hostilities and after four wars of increasing intensity, both the North and the South realize that they cannot peacefully coexist on the continent. Like The Great War: Breakthroughs, this volume picks up the pace from its predecessor, bringing an end to the interweaving stories that recount American life during wartime. I'm pretty sure also that this is the end of the saga. I suppose Mr. Turtledove could create some tales from an alternate history cold war, I hope he'd refrain and turn his talents to some other endeavor. (like maybe that Kennedy story he had started on.)--J.
    • 4/5
      I have read the entire series starting from "How Few Remain" and I found this book very enjoyable...there are some surprises, but nothing major...its ending was more or less expected (by myself)...Ethical issues play a big role (especially at the end of the book)and Turtledove does a nice job contrasting the behavior of the north and the south...there are also some great reflections on todays world and the issues of war in general...I hope this is not the end and we have another series move us along the timeline...