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The Great War : Walk in Hell by Harry Turtledove is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Harry Turtledove marches on through history with The Great War: Walk in Hell. In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (), Americans fought again after the CSA acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand's assassination in 1914 (), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson's CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky into Pennsylvania, a Mormon uprising against the USA consumes Utah, and a black socialist rebellion distracts the CSA, where slavery has ended but blacks still await full citizenship.Walk in Hell takes us from fall, 1915, through 1916. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen continue the fight, but much happens behind the lines too. Turtledove's characters include Jewish immigrants who are socialist and antiwar, a widow running a coffee house in CSA-occupied Washington, D.C., who passes information to the USA, and two Canadian farmers living under U.S. occupation in Quebec and Manitoba. He vividly conveys the human s
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Harry Turtledove
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345405623
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (2,393 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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