Blood and Iron: 1 (Southern Victory: American Empire) - Softcover

Turtledove, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345405668 ISBN 13: 9780345405661

Publisher: Del Rey Books, 2002

Synopsis

"Blood and Iron is a masterpiece."--Sci Fi Weekly

World War I--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the United States. In the South, the once-mighty Confederate States have been pounded into poverty and merciless inflation. The time is right for madmen, demagogues, and terrorists. With Socialists rising to power in the U.S., and a dangerous fanatic in the Confederacy preaching a doctrine of hate, more than enough people are eager to return the world to war.

"A master storyteller as well as a trained historian with an imagination . . . [Turtledove] has succeeded in taking title as the premier writer in [alternate history], relentlessly asking what if one or two key events in our reality happened differently. The result is fascinating."--Houston Chronicle

"Turtledove is a master at weaving details of ordinary life into a much bigger canvas to produce a world that so easily could have been our own. [It] is what keeps readers coming back for more."--Tulsa World

About this title

Review:

"Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history."
--USA Today

"A moving meditation on revenge...sure to both please and terrify." -- SciFi Weekly

"Harry Turtledove is ...amazing in the the realness of the structure and detail of his created alternate history. he is obviously a master of the form." -- Science Fiction Chronicle

About the Author:

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler's War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d'Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters--Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca--and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0345405668
• ISBN 13: 9780345405661
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 656