Harry Turtledove

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American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold

American Empire: Blood and Iron

Colonisation: Aftershocks

The Great War: Breakthroughs

Colonisation: Down to Earth

Paperback - NEL (2003)

American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold
It is 1924: a time of rebuilding both in America and in the devastated cities of Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party can do no wrong as the stock market soars and America enjoys a prosperity unknown for half a century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history a new generation faces new uncertainties.
The Confederate States, tasting defeat in the Great War, suffer poverty and natural disaster. As the 1920s end, calamity casts a pall across the continent. Civil war rages in Mexico, terrorist uprisings threaten US control in Canada, Utah explodes in violence.
In a world of occupiers and the occupied, of simmering hatreds, shattered lives and pent-up violence, the centre can no longer hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock will come when a fleet of foreign aircraft rains death and destruction on one of the great cities of the United States.
'Exciting action, well-drawn characters who draw you into their lives and joys and sorrows, a tightly logical and engrossing plot and an encyclopaedic knowledge of history that enriches the narrative without slowing it – what’s not to like?' A.M.Stirling

Paperback - NEL (2002)

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2001)

American Empire: Blood and Iron
Volume One: Blood And Iron
The Great war has ended - a new era begin
The master of alternate history continues his highly-acclaimed exploration of what could have been our history in the first volume of a new trilogy, bringing to life the roaring twenties of a very different world.
As Turtledove’s brilliant series The Great War came to its end, the United States of America, in alliance with Germany, had defeated Great Britain, France and the Confederate States of America in a bloody conflict known as the first World War.
As the 1920s begin, though, the seeds of a new conflict have already been sown. The United States, led by Theodore Roosevelt, swings wildly towards socialism. In Canada - now a US colony -nationalist terrorists strike against the new American oppressors. But it is in the Confederacy, trapped in a ruinous economic depression, where fascism begins to spread, and the fires are fanned by a charismatic leader who may again plunge the world into war.
Harry Turtledove’s gripping evocation of a changed twentieth century has never been more exciting.
Praise For Harry Turtledove:
‘The wizard of If:’ Chicago Sun-Times
‘Harry Turtledove [is] probably the best-known practitioner of alternate history working today’ American Heritage
‘Harry Turtledove has established himself as a grand master of the alternative history form’ Poul Anderson
‘Turtledove [is] the standard-bearer for alternate history’ USA Today
‘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
‘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 on How Few Remain
'A cast of thousands with at plot to match… a wealth of fascinating speculation.' Kirkus Reviews

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2001)

Paperback - NEL (2001)

Colonisation: Aftershocks
In this new volume of his extraordinary alternate-history epic, Harry Turtledove’s Colonisation: Aftershocks continues the story of the invading aliens of the Race and the struggle of humanity to overthrow the oppressors.
As the 1960s begin, the German Reich has finally been defeated by the Race and a tentative truce is called between the victors and the Tosev 3 inhabitants. America and Russia, threatened by the Race’s demands, hold them off in a technological standoff. And China, led by Mao Tse-tung’s revolutionary army, challenges the alien invaders’ superiority.
Forbidden experimentation on both sides into the effects of the assimilation of each other’s species into their own culture is producing surprising results. The Race’s troops are suffering from ginger addiction. It appears that there can never be the unchallenged colonisation that the Empire imagined.
A nuclear strike launched against the Race’s colonisation fleet by an unknown enemy could change the history of the world forever . . .

Paperback - NEL (2001)

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2001)

The Great War: Breakthroughs
The epic story of the First World War as it so nearly could have been by the modern day master of alternate history.
Is it the war to end all wars - or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spread to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between two independent nations explodes. Twice in fifty years the Confederate States of America have humiliated their northern neighbour. Now revenge may at last be at hand.
Under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt, and following a general named Custer - military genius or madman? - the United Stares are fighting a war on two fronts in 1917. In the north, from the Pacific to Quebec, U.S. forces in the air and on land are locked in battle against Canada and Great Britain. To the south, at the heart of a line that stretches from the Gulf of California to the Atlantic, Custer intends to do what none of his predecessors had ever managed: to smash through the Confederate barbwire entrenchments in Tennessee.
Into this vast, seething cauldron plunges a new generation of weaponry - submarines, attack planes, poison gas and flamethrowers - changing the shape of war and the balance of power. As the United States prepares the most horrific armoured assault the world has ever seen ...
This could be the turning point. Victory is or hand. But at what price?

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (2000)

Paperback - NEL (2000)

Colonisation: Down to Earth
Colonisation: Volume Two takes us into the tumultuous 1960s, as the reptilian race ponders its uneasy future on the planet it calls Tosev 3. The United States has prospered since the war, and has sent a manned spaceship deep into space. On the other side of the globe, the German Reich remains bloodied but unbowed, brandishing a frightening new weapon and always poised for war. China strains under alien occupation, and from Poland to Jerusalem, Jews must choose between aiding the Race or the Reich.
In Down To Earth, Harry Turtledove continues the breathtaking tale that has established him as one of alternate history's leading practitioners. Populated by a cast that includes the famous, from Khomeini to Himmler and the unknown - drug smugglers, soldiers and lovers - this new novel weaves a spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom, destruction and hope.