This is actually a trilogy of which I read the first two books: "Hitler's War" and "West and East". The premise is simple: what if Chamberlain and Deladier refuse Hitler's demands at the Munich conference?As opposed to other Turtledove books where historic personalities have a major role in the s...
This was just okay. In a lot of ways, the plot was getting redundant; the characters were basically encountering the same situations and having the same, seemingly identical thoughts about the supervolcano. More than that, it seemed like the truly interesting stuff was happening off stage to othe...
Harry, Harry, Harry. Harry, Harry. Harry.What have you become? What aberration is this? What has become of... How in Gods name can a novel about the eruption of a super volcano be as dull as volcanic ash?This books leaves you with more questions than "House of Leaves" and none of the questions ar...
I enjoyed this book more than the first one, probably just because I was better at keeping all the characters straight. I thought the battle scenes were great, especially the U-boat operations, the tank-busting by the ace Junker pilot, and the Panzer team in action against the Red Army in Poland....
DisappointingThe novel "Give me back my legions" by Harry Turtledove is disappointing. The author concentrates on the psychology of the two main characters Varus and Arminius, which starts to repeat after a while. Besides this the author forgets a lot of other important things. For example I woul...
Turtledove takes the continent of Atlantis into a uniquely different type of civil war. It's 2 generations after the war of independence from England, and the slaves of southern Atlantis can't take more of the suffering they endure. When Frederick Radcliff, the descendant of the famous Victor R...
A fun collection of short stories. The title is a bit of a misnomer, as two of the stories are set in Atlantis and tie into his Atlantis trilogy, the other 10 are not. I was expecting roughly half of the book to flesh out other times of the Atlantis timeline, with a sprinkling of other unrelate...
Settling Accounts: The Grapple, by Harry Turtledove is the 3rd book in his alternate history series about WWII after the South won the civil war and has been the Confederate States of America ever since. I'm running out of things to say about this series that I haven't already mentioned in the r...
Part three of the "American Empire" trilogy show Jake Featherston and the Freedom Party taking control of the CSA, and the predictable reprocussions that happen as a result. It's clear that Turtledove knows his interwar history, and he brings all of that to bear here.There were two main problems...
From about 2001 to 2008, when I was still in high school and undergraduate studies, I was a voracious fan of Mr. Turtledove’s works. I completely finished his Worldwar saga, read all the way up through the American Empire trilogy, and devoured not a few of his single-shot novels. Now, after a hia...
I'm not sure what I can say about 'Breakthroughs' that wasn't also true of the previous two installments in this series. It has a few interesting turns, and not alot of them I can talk about without disclosing the entirety of the books.In short, this deals with the alternate history in which the...
Second of the Great War trilogy, and third overall of the eleven-book Southern Victory series - I have so many mixed emotions about the series at this point and just am not sure if I have the patience to continue.There are many things I like here. Harry Turtledove, first of all, knows his history...
3.5 stars. This is Book 1 of Harry Turtledove’s massive alternate history WW2 epic and I will say at the outset that I definitely enjoyed this enough to go on to the next book. I was really torn between 3 and 4 stars on this one as I loved the premise and the set up but there were some slow parts...
This novel is the first in the Colonization Trilogy. Set in the 1960's, twenty years after the Second World War was interrupted by an alien invasion. There are still enormous enmities between the three super-powers; the United States, the German Reich, and the Soviet Union. But somehow the humans...
This series continues to be as captivating as ever. I would say this volume of the series was even better than the previous, which kind of felt like it was dragging on a bit there at the end of the war. It was pretty mesmerizing in a horrifying way to see the watch the Freedom parties shooting ...
The premise of Harry Turtledove's alternate history tale, Ruled Britannia, is that the Spanish Armada did manage to take over England in 1588. Philip II installs his daughter Isabella and her consort Albert on the throne of England, imprisons Elizabeth in the Tower, and returns England to Catholi...
I should say I thoroughly enjoy this series, but I'd hesitate to call them 'great' books. They are very entertaining. I won't do a review of all 6 just now because I've been reading them on something like 6 month intervals (the books themselves don't take too long to read). Obviously if you've re...
This is the second book in the TL-191 series and the first in the American Front trilogy.The world of "How Few Remain" is now experiencing its equivalent of World War I. The tensions in Europe played out in the same way as in our world, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Serbia trigg...
A volte è proprio vero che attendere tanto di vedere, fare, leggere qualcosa può portare a non gustarsela appieno: sarà l'aspettativa, sarà la curiosità, sarà quel che volete, ma effettivamente può capitare.Per me è stato così con l'ultimo volume della seconda saga dell'Invasione scritta da Harry...
This was an alternative history book set mostly in the early 1900s in what we know as the US and Canada but in this book things are quite different. It was a fairly good read even though I didn't read its predecessors. I am going to defer to the description found a the web site listed here for a...
Only two books to go!I've been reading this alternate history series—which began with How Few Remain (a tale of the Second Mexican War, a conflict begun between the USA and CSA in the 1880s over the CSA's annexing two Mexican provinces)—since I was a sophomore in high school. (How Few Remain begi...
My brief review of "The Bastard King" really applies to the entire trilogy. I have to go on a minor rant about the publisher. The first two novels were listed as being by "Dan Chernenko." So naturally, when I went looking for the third novel, I looked in the C's in the fantasy/SF section of my lo...
Il ciclo dell'invasione di Harry Turtledove, lo scrittore statunitense nato a Los Angeles nel 1949 che è comunemente considerato un autore di allostorie, è una saga fantascientifica che è stata scritta tra il 1994 e il 1996 e ambientata nel corso della seconda guerra mondiale, mescolando elementi...
When it comes to critiquing Harry Turtledove’s ability in crafting alternate history, I must echo the old SNL skit characters of “Wayne’s World” in saying, “I’m not worthy!” Those who follow my reviews know that I don’t care for the hopscotch nature of “epic” novels but that I am willing to slog ...
This part 2 of Harry Turtledove's "Darkness," series. I guess there are six in the series. I started reading this one right after I read volume One. I got involved and finished it fairly quickly.This is a fantasy novel, written with Turtledove's usual exactness and attention to detail. It is a ve...
Harry Turtledove, The Guns Of The SouthEarns his alternate history reputationI've been interested in the alternate history genre, and finally picked up some Turtledove. (The local library had a copy, and this is a standalone book, as opposed to starting one of his big series in the middle)The sto...
I enjoyed the book. The (individual) stories (chapters) were well put together, and showed a pattern of progress over time with regard to human rights and sim(homoerectus) rights. Slavery of blacks ended much earlier, and in a more peaceful way in the book, than in our history. The author impl...
This book seemed interesting. It wasn't. It had incredibly long passages of intricately detailed bridge games. (Yes, bridge games. And not "high stakes bridge" or anything like that. The book wasn't set at a bridge tournament. It was just two main characters and their wives getting together to pl...
Before Harry Turtledove became obsessed with writing - and rewriting- alternative versions of the Second World War, he was a notable scholar of Byzantine history, which led him to write the Videssos series, and entertaining saga that turns away from the usual Northern Europeans-folklore influence...