[stainlessbanner]

Ya'll might enjoy this - I know there are some Turtledove fans on FR.

[billbears]

Well I'll say I was. Don't like the aspect he's taken in WWI if the South would have won. Basically slavery continues 50 years later and the October Rebellion that happened in Russia in 1917 happens in the Confederacy. Last book I read in that series is after the war and a Hitler type figure is on the rise. The problem being is that he did so well on the first few books, I continue to read even though I disagree with the faulty premise.

Good to see his WorldWar series is continuing too. Last book brought it up to the 60s

[billbears]

So when the words he puts in the mouth of Abraham Lincoln in "Guns of the South" or "How Few Remain" sound uncannily like the president himself, it's because they were taken or adapted from what he really said in speeches and letters.

And by 1881, lincoln who lives in Turtledove's world, starts the American Socialist Party. Imagine that!!

[vetvetdoug]

Guns of The South has been the only Turtledove book that I have read to this date. Turtledove has some insight as to what the leaders of that period believed since he is a historian. It was fantasy though, I prefer Non-fiction reads. I believe this was the only fictional historical novel I ever read.