Topic: A good book to read...

[Monty]

I don't normally make it my business to post reviews of books that I read.

I just finished reading my lastest aquisition.

 The Guns of the South
 by  Harry Turtledove.

I've a feeling that some of you here might enjoy this book even more than I did. I'm not overly familiar with American history so a fiction book based on the American civil war doesn't really hold much stock with me as it stands.

In the few seconds it took me to scan the front and back covers I was sold. For some here it is one of the big  "What IF" 's .

Front Cover quote:
 

Quote:
The Master of alternative history depicts the ultimate reversal: The south wins the civil war...  

Rear Cover quote:

 

Quote:
 January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47....

Intrigued yet? You should be....  

[Scott Allen Abfalter]

OK, actually, until that last sentance I was not interested.  

[Kmelew]

Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

[Dracho]

You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451459156/qid=1084936599/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/104-1011059-3817560?v=glance&s=books

From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Turtledove (American Empire, etc.) buckles a handsome Elizabethan swash with his latest fascinating what if: suppose the Spanish Armada had beaten the Virgin Queen's little navy and reimposed on England the fanatic Roman Catholicism of Bloody Mary Tudor and her ruthless husband, Philip II of Spain. For almost a decade, the English have chafed under Philip's daughter Isabella and her Austrian consort, as well as the Inquisition, enforced by arrogant dons, their hired-gun Irish gallowglasses (rumored to be cannibals) and English Catholic sympathizers. Good Queen Bess languishes in the Tower of London while her supporters plot rebellion-to be sparked by no less than a patriotic new play by Will Shakespeare, Turtledove's lovingly drawn hero, who's drawn willy-nilly into the conspiracy by Elizabeth's former minister, Lord Burghley. The author revels in complex turns of language and spouts brilliant adaptations of the real Shakespeare's immortal lines. Superbly realized historical figures include the "darkly handsome," doomed Kit Marlowe and the Machiavellian Robert Cecil. Equally engaging are such lesser characters as the "cunning woman" Cicely Sellis, who "thinks of England." Turtledove has woven an intricate and thoroughly engrossing portrait of an era, a theatrical tradition, a heroic band of English brothers and their sneering overlords. O, brave alternative world that has such people in't!
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345388526/qid=1084936819/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1011059-3817560

From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.
And then, suddenly, the real enemy came.
The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable.
But the alternative was even worse.
As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge . .
 

[Monty]

Quote:
Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

I've read the first few of the The Great War series.  I haven't read the American Empire books - yet. They look great.

I'm actually reading How few Remain at this moment- I should really say rereading, but its been so long since I originally read it. Saw it in a second hand bookshop the other week for a couple of pounds and picked it up.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for his new book this summer.  

[Monty]

Quote:
You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.
 

Sounds interesting. I might just see if i can get my hands on those books. I do alot of travelling and theres nothing better than a good book to pass the time.

Quote:

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.

I read the first few. What I read was excellent though. One of these days I will have to read the remaining books.  

[Monty]

I don't normally make it my business to post reviews of books that I read.

I just finished reading my lastest aquisition.

 The Guns of the South
 by  Harry Turtledove.

I've a feeling that some of you here might enjoy this book even more than I did. I'm not overly familiar with American history so a fiction book based on the American civil war doesn't really hold much stock with me as it stands.

In the few seconds it took me to scan the front and back covers I was sold. For some here it is one of the big  "What IF" 's .

Front Cover quote:
 

Quote:
The Master of alternative history depicts the ultimate reversal: The south wins the civil war...  

Rear Cover quote:

 

Quote:
 January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47....

Intrigued yet? You should be....  

[Scott Allen Abfalter]

OK, actually, until that last sentance I was not interested.  

[Kmelew]

Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

[Dracho]

You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451459156/qid=1084936599/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/104-1011059-3817560?v=glance&s=books

From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Turtledove (American Empire, etc.) buckles a handsome Elizabethan swash with his latest fascinating what if: suppose the Spanish Armada had beaten the Virgin Queen's little navy and reimposed on England the fanatic Roman Catholicism of Bloody Mary Tudor and her ruthless husband, Philip II of Spain. For almost a decade, the English have chafed under Philip's daughter Isabella and her Austrian consort, as well as the Inquisition, enforced by arrogant dons, their hired-gun Irish gallowglasses (rumored to be cannibals) and English Catholic sympathizers. Good Queen Bess languishes in the Tower of London while her supporters plot rebellion-to be sparked by no less than a patriotic new play by Will Shakespeare, Turtledove's lovingly drawn hero, who's drawn willy-nilly into the conspiracy by Elizabeth's former minister, Lord Burghley. The author revels in complex turns of language and spouts brilliant adaptations of the real Shakespeare's immortal lines. Superbly realized historical figures include the "darkly handsome," doomed Kit Marlowe and the Machiavellian Robert Cecil. Equally engaging are such lesser characters as the "cunning woman" Cicely Sellis, who "thinks of England." Turtledove has woven an intricate and thoroughly engrossing portrait of an era, a theatrical tradition, a heroic band of English brothers and their sneering overlords. O, brave alternative world that has such people in't!
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345388526/qid=1084936819/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1011059-3817560

From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.
And then, suddenly, the real enemy came.
The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable.
But the alternative was even worse.
As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge . .
 

[Monty]

Quote:
Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

I've read the first few of the The Great War series.  I haven't read the American Empire books - yet. They look great.

I'm actually reading How few Remain at this moment- I should really say rereading, but its been so long since I originally read it. Saw it in a second hand bookshop the other week for a couple of pounds and picked it up.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for his new book this summer.  

[Monty]

Quote:
You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.
 

Sounds interesting. I might just see if i can get my hands on those books. I do alot of travelling and theres nothing better than a good book to pass the time.

Quote:

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.

I read the first few. What I read was excellent though. One of these days I will have to read the remaining books.  

[Monty]

I don't normally make it my business to post reviews of books that I read.

I just finished reading my lastest aquisition.

 The Guns of the South
 by  Harry Turtledove.

I've a feeling that some of you here might enjoy this book even more than I did. I'm not overly familiar with American history so a fiction book based on the American civil war doesn't really hold much stock with me as it stands.

In the few seconds it took me to scan the front and back covers I was sold. For some here it is one of the big  "What IF" 's .

Front Cover quote:
 

Quote:
The Master of alternative history depicts the ultimate reversal: The south wins the civil war...  

Rear Cover quote:

 

Quote:
 January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.
Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.
The name of the weapon is the AK-47....

Intrigued yet? You should be....  

[Scott Allen Abfalter]

OK, actually, until that last sentance I was not interested.  

[Kmelew]

Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

[Dracho]

You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451459156/qid=1084936599/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/104-1011059-3817560?v=glance&s=books

From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Turtledove (American Empire, etc.) buckles a handsome Elizabethan swash with his latest fascinating what if: suppose the Spanish Armada had beaten the Virgin Queen's little navy and reimposed on England the fanatic Roman Catholicism of Bloody Mary Tudor and her ruthless husband, Philip II of Spain. For almost a decade, the English have chafed under Philip's daughter Isabella and her Austrian consort, as well as the Inquisition, enforced by arrogant dons, their hired-gun Irish gallowglasses (rumored to be cannibals) and English Catholic sympathizers. Good Queen Bess languishes in the Tower of London while her supporters plot rebellion-to be sparked by no less than a patriotic new play by Will Shakespeare, Turtledove's lovingly drawn hero, who's drawn willy-nilly into the conspiracy by Elizabeth's former minister, Lord Burghley. The author revels in complex turns of language and spouts brilliant adaptations of the real Shakespeare's immortal lines. Superbly realized historical figures include the "darkly handsome," doomed Kit Marlowe and the Machiavellian Robert Cecil. Equally engaging are such lesser characters as the "cunning woman" Cicely Sellis, who "thinks of England." Turtledove has woven an intricate and thoroughly engrossing portrait of an era, a theatrical tradition, a heroic band of English brothers and their sneering overlords. O, brave alternative world that has such people in't!
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345388526/qid=1084936819/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-1011059-3817560

From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.
And then, suddenly, the real enemy came.
The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable.
But the alternative was even worse.
As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge . .
 

[Monty]

Quote:
Turtledove's alternate histories are great!

You might want to read  How Few Remain, a story about the  second war between the North and the South.  It serves as a prequel to Turtledove's The Great War series in which the United States are allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey while the Confederate States are allied with Britain, France and Russia:

 American Front
 Walk in Hell
 Breakthroughs

His follow-up series, American Empire, deals with the turbulent times between the world wars and the rise of Facism:

 Blood and Iron
 The Center Cannot Hold
 The Victorious Opposition

Turtledove's alternate WWII trilogy, Settling Accounts, begins this summer with:

 Return Engagement

   

I've read the first few of the The Great War series.  I haven't read the American Empire books - yet. They look great.

I'm actually reading How few Remain at this moment- I should really say rereading, but its been so long since I originally read it. Saw it in a second hand bookshop the other week for a couple of pounds and picked it up.

I'll keep my eyes peeled for his new book this summer.  

[Monty]

Quote:
You might also like the Ruled Brittania series, in which the Spanish Armada succeeds, and an enslaved England struggled for freedom.
 

Sounds interesting. I might just see if i can get my hands on those books. I do alot of travelling and theres nothing better than a good book to pass the time.

Quote:

You might also like the Worldwar Series, in which a reptilian alien race invades Earth at the height of WWII.

I read the first few. What I read was excellent though. One of these days I will have to read the remaining books.