Settling Accounts: Drive to the East

Settling Accounts: Drive to the East

by HarryTurtledove (Author)

Synopsis

Turtledove's alternate history of a century-long American civil war continues ...The second book in the Settling Accounts sequence takes the story to 1942, during an utterly different World War II. The Confederate States of America are locked in a tangle of jagged, blood-soaked battle lines with the United States of America. In Richmond, dictator Jake Featherston is shocked by what his own aircraft have done in Philadelphia - killing U. S. president Al Smith in a barrage of bombs. But he presses ahead with a secret plan on the dusty plains of Texas, where a so-called detention camp hides a far more evil purpose. The United States face a furious thrust by Confederate army into Pennsylvania. But with the industrial heartland under siege, Canada in revolt and US ships fighting against the Japanese in the Sandwich Islands, the most dangerous place in the world may be overlooked.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 608
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 13 Feb 2006

ISBN 10: 0340826886
ISBN 13: 9780340826881
Book Overview: Turtledove's alternate history of a century-long American civil war continues ... The second book in the Settling Accounts sequence takes the story to 1942, during an utterly different World War II.

Media Reviews
Turtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background. * Kirkus Reviews on RETURN ENGAGEMENTS *
With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world . . . This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less * Publishers Weekly (starred review for HOW F *
'Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash.' Time Out on A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters . . . totally fascinating. * Booklist on THE GREAT WAR series *
The latest volume in Turtledove's colossal and brialliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the opener, HOW FEW REMAIN * Publishers Weekly on AMERICAN EMPIRE series *
Author Bio
Harry Turtledove has lived in Southern California all his life He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, California State Fullerton and California State University, Los Angeles. He has written many works of speculative fiction and fantasy. He is married to the novelist Laura Frankos and they have three daughters.