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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: This series has all the merits of a really first-rate historical novel -- vivid characterization, compelling plot, meticulous research -- with one important added bonus.You don't know who's going to win! As always, Turtledove does an excellent job. I got to read this one in galleys, and I'm _still_ going to buy the hardcover. In fact, I may buy several copies as Christmas presents. Go ye and do likewise.
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Summary: excellent alternate history
Review: couldn't put this book down! if you like alternate history don't miss this series. The only drawback is waiting for the next book in the series. Turtledove explores plausible options for a CSA-USA conflict as well as developing an interesting plot line and battle scences.
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Summary: I eagerly await this, as I do all of Mr Turtledove's books
Review: I bet the South wins. We've got skill, bravery, and the force of Right on our side. CSA all the way! Stars and Bars for-ever! In any event, I'm sure this book will be as insightful as Turtledove's books always are. They create the feeling that the reader is really there, experiencing the events along with the characters. I hope it talks a little bit more abou what's happening in Europe, although I suppose we can assume it is basically following "real history" at this point.
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Summary: I love this author! i want to read this book first!!
Review: I think it will be his best book ever,all of his others have been grea
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Summary: A Study in Detail
Review: The First book in this saga was an outstanding study into the circumstances surrounding WWI as it actually happened. Like the Guns of the South, this series is an outstanding way to view what really happened. Kudos to Harry Turtledove, i'm sure he won't disappoint.
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Summary: I can't wait for this book to come out! Yeah Baby!
Review: I haven't read it, but I think and hope the U.S. wins this war. They have everything on their side this time: a strong presdient, a large industrial base, foreign allies, a strong navy, good generals, Patton, Pershing, etc., numbers of men, and the resolve to unite the North American continent under one flag, the stars and stripes, go America!
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Summary: An excellent work of alternative history
Review: I have just finished the second in Turtledove's epic series on WWI. The work is strangely compelling in that the series of "what ifs" blend with the actual historical occurances in a seamless fashion. Turtledove has a great command of the technological changes that took place during the great war period and is able to combine those changes with the Southern agarian gentlemen mindset that was prevailant during the war of succession some fifty years earlier. This results in a clash of ideals that could have easily taken place in the United States as it did in actuality in the British army during the 1914-1918 conflict. The characters are a continuation of those introduced in the first work in the series, America's Front, and I have come to appreciate the shades of personality and interaction which the author developes. I look forward to August 1, 2000 when the third part of this promised four part series becomes available. My only complaint will be having to wait for Turtledove's ultimate conclusion some time next year.
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Summary: Excellent - what might have been!
Review: Again, Turtledove does an excellent job of presenting an alternate history. Amazing to think it all turned on one event as presented in "How Few Remain." From the small amount I know of how the USA and CSA saw each other during the US Civil War (War of Secession in this series - I guess it's true that the victors write the history!) this is very plausible as to how the two countries would have dealt with each other. As a Canadian, I somehow find myself rooting for the CSA even though I hate what it stood for. As portrayed in both books of the Great War series, we Canadians are just as patriotic as you Americans, we just don't show it as overtly. Even though it's fiction, it just goes to show how war makes strange bedfellows. I too can't wait for the next book in the series, and I can't wait to see how the borders will have been redrawn again after the conclusion. I just hope that Turtledove continues this series through to World War II (likely to have happened inevitably no matter who won WWI) and even into the 50's and 60's and the civil rights movement. Just how might things have been different. I must disagree with others who found the pace slow - WWI was slow and this comes across well in this book. I don't think there are too many characters, and they could be developed more, but each book, they are more fleshed out. Please, Harry - give us the next one soon!
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Summary: Good installment in alternative WWI series
Review: In "The Great War: Walk in Hell," Harry Turtledove continues his tale of an alternate world in which the United States and Confederate States fight the "war to end all wars." From the vantage point of the characters he introduced in "American Front", the reader follows events from the fall of 1915 - with the sides deadlocked in a bloody stalemate and facing rebellions at home - to the end of 1916. His command of the period is excellent and, while some characters are better defined than others, the overall depictions are strong enough to sustain a reader's interest throughout the novel. Together their experiences convey the grinding misery of war, with the deaths of a couple of his main characters helping to underline the tragedy of the conflict. As a result, while suffering from some of the drag inherent in any middle novel of a series that seeks to sustain action without reaching conclusion, "Walk in Hell" is an entertaining read and a good addition to his developing tetralogy.
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Summary: The Great War gets bogged down
Review: Walk In Hell is the continuation of Turtledove's alternative history of WWI as fought on American soil. Walk In Hell continues the story exactly where American Front leaves off and focuses largely on the inability for either side to escape the horror of trench warfare. In the Confederacy the blacks rise up in communist insurrection taking advantage of the South's distraction with the war. With the fight stalled on most fronts Walk in Hell works to further develop the 12 or so characters Turtledove is following through the war.
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