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Summary: An great alter-history view of what might have been
Review: I have been a student of Robert E. Lee's and the South for a very long time and I think that Mr. Turtledove spent a great deal of time researching General Lee for this book and thus he captured the true essense of him. That is what makes this book almost believeable. Of course, time travel is difficult to swallow, but what if the south did have some way of creating a superior weapon and turning the tide of the war? Mr. Turtledove provokes some interesting questions. All in all, this is a very enjoyable read and one that all civil war buffs should put on their christmas list.
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Summary: excellent,once you start you can't stop
Review: This book was very entertaining. I like the fact that it was not just a war,let's kill everyone book,but a novel that let you feel what the characters felt.It acually gave you the feelingyou were there. And it made you think about your self and how you would act.
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Summary: Fast moving, a real page burner.
Review: I'm not usually a reader of sci-fi or alternative history but I happened to catch a reading of Turtledove's book on the radio and it kept my interest. I just had to have the book. As a reader I found the author innovative and easy to read, his insight and detail to facts held my interest. After reading this book, I couldn't wait to read his next book "How Few Remain", I place Turtledove in the same realm as Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Harold Coyle.
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Summary: Complex, Gripping, and densely researched.
Review: The book wisely treats the time travel as a fait accompli, instead focusing on the consequences of modern technologies on the era. The battle passages are well written; they may seem long, but it served to communicate to me the hideous nature of warfare in that or any other age more than most books (or any movie) I've run across. Once the war is over, the book changes focus, but loses none of its impact; I was slightly worried at the onset that the book would degenerate into some sort of pro slavery-rant; I should have had more faith in Mr. Turtledove.
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Summary: A long, long, long time ago, this didn't happen...
Review: I must admit the premise of this book is facsinating, but the excess detail Turtledove goes into slows the pace down to a glacial crawl. I found my self skipping entire sections, mostly the battle descriptions. There is nothing really compelling or interesting about reading how Confederate soldiers blast the Union Army apart with modern AK-47's. The entire book is a forgone conclusion before you get three chapters into it.
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Summary: Lack of scientific validity ruined reading experience.
Review: Turtledove doesn't tackle the problem of paradox in this book. If a group of white-supremist time travelers from early 21st century South Africa were to travel back to the Civil War era and provide the Confederacy with superior firepower, thus causing the Confederacy to win the Civil War, there would never be an impetus for the group to travel back in time and provide the Confederacy with superior firepower. Perhaps Turtledove should stick to writing alternate history novels, and leave the complicated aspects of temporal mechanics to those of above-average intelligence.
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Summary: If you like "Guns of the South"...
Review: ...you may also want to read "A Rebel in Time" by Harry Harrison, if you can find it. The basic premise is the same, but the approach the authors take is very different.Turtledove, as usual, provides an amazingly detailed, complex world for his characters. Harrison offers a faster read, a slightly twisty plot and his characteristic delightful prose. These are my two favorite authors, and it's wonderful to see what they each did with the same idea.
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Summary: One of the best alternate history's I have ever read
Review: The first night i got this book i could not put it down. The historical accuracy about the whole book ( well, what is true at least)is amazing.
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Summary: Good historical accuracy, fast-moving, clever
Review: A fine, painless review of why the South seceeded. A ripping yarn of close combat by veteran amateur soldiers. Clever study of how wartime comrades become political rivals in the post-war world. One interesting note: I'm in the middle of writing a Civil War novel myself, and had concluded that there's no way to get hetero-sex into a story of regiments on campaign. Wrong-o! HT managed it in a very clever and realistic way. I'm jealous.
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Summary: It is a good book
Review: It is very exciting and has good dialog. It also has good characters and is realistic. It has many major characters and is suspensful.
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