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Darkness Descending The Great War: Walk in Hell Into the Darkness The Great War: American Front

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British Pbk Original - Earthlight (2000)

Darkness Descending
Sequel to Into The Darkness
As the war which has engulfed entire continents rolls on, Harry Turtledove's myriad characters come to realise that their, lives have been changed forever. Sons die - as do mothers and fathers - atrocities become commonplace, once-proud aristos become the playthings of conquering armies.
But the worst is yet to come…
Algarve, victorious in all its efforts, becomes bogged down in the desolate winter of Unkerlant, its main enemy. To move faster, Algarve's king, Mezentio, decides to undertake blood magic which amounts to genocide; and once this is seen to work, its use elsewhere cannot be long coming. It may be that Pekka, a theoretical sorcerer in the small island nation of Kuusamo, holds the only answer to this horror.
Harry Turtledove is a master of sweeping narrative and interlocking storylines. In this sequel to the bestselling Into The Darkness, he brings together characters from all levels of society and shows how the ever-expanding wars on his world can claw the humanity out of the rich and privileged and poor alike –though courage and charity can flourish despite adversity.
'The master of alternative SF' Publishers Weekly

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Paperback - NEL (2000)

The Great War: Walk in Hell
The second volume in the epic story of the First World War as it so nearly could have been by the modern day master of alternate history.
It's 1915, The Great War is intensifying, and the time of darkness has come. The slaves of the south have risen against their masters, taken on the creed of Bolshevism and are attacking the Confederacy from within. But the United States remains pinned between its weakened southern rival, and the other bitter enemy, Canada. Both Presidents - Theodore Roosevelt of the Union and staunch Confederate Woodrow Wilson - are stubbornly determined to lead their nations to victory, at any cost.
Meanwhile the new and poisonous weapons of tanks, gas and planes are starting to make their presence felt at the front. It's total war for the first time in human history and ordinary people on both sides are the ones to begin to suffer…
‘Alternate history buffs… will marvel at his mastery of detail, enjoy following his logic as he pursues military and social developments onward in time, and find it hard to wait for the next in the series’ Amazon.com

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Paperback - Earthlight (2000)

Into the Darkness
The death of a duke leads to bloody war, as the King of Algarve moves swiftly to reclaim the duchy which was lost during a previous conflict. But country after country is pulled into the war, as alliances reassert themselves and a hatred of difference escalates into rabid nationalism.
From pompous kings to sly diplomats, from peasants to dragonflies, Harry Turtledove has created a tapestry of colour, honour and the realities of bloody death. Into the Darkness begins a new epic fantasy series which echoes conflicts of our own history.
‘Robust storytelling’ Publishers Weekly
‘Compulsive’ Dreamberry Wine
‘One of the geniuses of this demanding field’ Science Fiction Age
'A breath of fresh air… you’re treated to a planet made of various different nations each unique and varied’ SFX

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First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1999)

The Great War: American Front
The first in Harry Turtledove's massive new First World War series.
The epic story of the First World War as it so nearly could have been by the modern day master of alternate history.
How few remain set the stage for Harry Turtledove's new creation - a world where the Deep South won the Civil War and the two sides still stare unblinkingly across the borders of their divided country. Now 1914 has arrived, and European conflict has spread to the Americas. The Confederacy has sided with her age-old allies, France and Britain; while the United States has thrown in her powerful lot with the upstart Germany.
Modern warfare, with its mud, trenches and machine guns, is soon scything through the continent, cutting indiscriminately through the massed ranks of American youth. But it is not long before the conflict develops into something even greater. After years of bloody oppression, the South's abused slaves finally throw off their shackles in vicious civil war against their white masters.
This is the story of war in the melting pot, of personal and political warfare in a powerful but divided land.
'With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world, and how much of it depends on a Untied States of America... This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less' Publishers Weekly (Starred review)

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