In at the Death, Harry Turtledove
In at the Death, Harry Turtledove
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In at the Death

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Paul Costanzo

Unabridged: 25 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/13/2016


Synopsis

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.

About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove's works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the stand-alone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on March 30, 2009

The end of a series (a series of series, really) that covers nearly a century of an alternate history of America and the world that sprang from a change in one event during the Civil War. I found it a satisfying resolution, but I wish the author had continued it into the current era and the future.......more

Goodreads review by Reza on June 02, 2018

Finally I had read all eleven books of the series! Which makes me both happy and sad at the same time. Happy, because it was a very interesting journey, following the wars between the states for 80 years, from the times of Roosevelt and Custer to LaFolette and Featherston. At last, the CSA was gone......more

Goodreads review by William on October 12, 2019

This book makes you glad that the North won the civil war. It describes the end of a war that is the most terrible thing one could imagine. It takes a worms-eye view of the war (same for the whole series), going into the daily details of each character, thus painting a terrible picture of a war that......more

Goodreads review by Nadienne on October 31, 2020

A most exciting conclusion! The war is at an end (and much sooner in the novel that I was expecting) and now the United States must keep the peace in the occupied Confederacy. I can't even begin to imagine how the measures which are used to quell unrest will effect the world in 10 years, 20 years, 30......more

Goodreads review by Tim on March 13, 2015

Early in 2013 I was looking at Google Maps at a town called Tyler, Texas (don’t ask how I wound up there), and found myself looking up information on Wikipedia (yes, I should know better, but that site often serves as a more than adequate gateway towards other information). One detail that caught my......more