Settling Accounts: In at the Death

Turtledove, Harry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340921803 ISBN 13: 9780340921807

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008

In the fourth volume of the Settling Accounts sequence it is 1945, and the war between the northern and southern American states that began in 1861 ends at last, as the most inventive and enthralling alternate-history series of our time comes to its surprising conclusion. Victory seems assured as the United States of America drive deep into Confederate States territory, uncovering shocking death camps as they go. But both sides in this war have been working on unimaginably powerful new weapons. Can a new kind of bomb save the Confederate States from defeat at the eleventh hour?

Recensione:

With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world ... This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less (Publishers Weekly on HOW FEW REMAIN)

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 SETTLING ACCOUNTS: RETURN ENGAGEMENT)

Turtledove's books are always great entertainment but in all these novels about an alternate North America the possible route of democracy, demagoguery and repression ring all too true . . . the power of the book is in its ordinary people and their struggles. (SFX Magazine on SETTLING ACCOUNTS: RETURN ENGAGEMENT)

Engrossing . . . definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters ... totally fascinating. (Booklist on THE GREAT WAR series)

Descrizione del libro:

In the fourth volume of the Settling Accounts sequence it is 1945, and the war between the northern and southern American states that began in 1861 ends at last, as the most inventive and enthralling alternate-history series of our time comes to its surprising conclusion.