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In at the Death (Settling Accounts #4)
Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove’s compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war...more
Hardcover, 609 pages
Published
July 31st 2007
by Del Rey
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After years of reading Turtledove, the time has come for me to reevaluate how I feel about his books.
I have always enjoyed Turtledove's ability to plot the movements and histories of worlds that never were. Few can do so as well as he can. Unfortunately, the rest of his books (with the exception of his single novels) follow a very repetitive and fairly predictable formula, and I for one am tired of it.
You can expect: two or three major narrative characters to die, inane d...more
I have always enjoyed Turtledove's ability to plot the movements and histories of worlds that never were. Few can do so as well as he can. Unfortunately, the rest of his books (with the exception of his single novels) follow a very repetitive and fairly predictable formula, and I for one am tired of it.
You can expect: two or three major narrative characters to die, inane d...more
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James
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The end of a series (a series of series, really) that covers nearly a century of an alternate history of America and the world that sprang from a change in one event during the Civil War. I found it a satisfying resolution, but I wish the author had continued it into the current era and the future. Maybe he'll decide to do that one day. As it is, this whole saga from the battle of Antietam through World War II is one I'll be reading again and again every few years.
In at the Death is probably the weakest book in the entire 10 books series. I say this because you know who's going to win the war so it lacks any tension. You're also not too worried about who can die. My biggest problem is that the previous books focused more on the various characters relationships and this one felt entirely plot driven.
However, the worse thing In at the Death does is that it's one long epilogue. The war wraps up 60% through the book. The rest of it is seeing the p...more
However, the worse thing In at the Death does is that it's one long epilogue. The war wraps up 60% through the book. The rest of it is seeing the p...more
The last book to Turtledove's Tetralogy known as the Settling Accounts series and part of the Timline-191 series (which has 11 books in the series including In at the Death) began and ended with a bang. The USA and the CSA are close in the heat to make the atomic bomb. The CSA makes one and uses the bomb on the outskirts of Philadelphia However, it does not damage any government buildings. Because of the CSA’s action, the USA manages to build two nuclear bombs and launches them at Newport News, ...more
This book is set in an alternate universe where the Confederacy won the Civil war. The USA and the CSA continue fighting wars. It is World War 2, and the CSA is at the end of the line. This book is excellent, but you must like reading about this kind of stuff to appreciate it.
OMFG… I did it. I finally completed this hideously dreadful final chapter of the Settling Accounts saga. I suppose I suffered through In at the Death out sheer mule-headed stubbornness. Canned dialogue, flat, graceless characters whom engendered a depressing lack of empathy on the part of the reader, a woefully unimaginative plot that borrowed far too heavily from real-life history with a thin veneer of cosmetic changes and of course there was the problem that persisted throughout the 4-volum...more
At last! The final volume of the Settling Accounts tetralogy which is the final section of the eleven volume Timeline-191 saga. One could argue that this book sees the end of two wars. The first is the "Second Great War", or World War Two, as we called it in our reality. It's the final conflict between the greater population and resources of the United States of America and whatever secret weapons the Confederate States of America might be able to pull out of their collective hat. This...more
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Alternate history fans, US history or WW II history buffs
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This was a better book than I thought it would be. I've read a lot of Turtledove, and had decided I had enough, then I saw this in the library. Since I had read the entire series up until this, the last, book in "Settling Accounts" I thought I'd finish it up. Actually, this may be his best book. I could not stop reading.
For those who don't know, Harry Turtledove has been rewriting Herman Wouk's The Winds of War for decades now. He uses the same global sweep, he lets the...more
For those who don't know, Harry Turtledove has been rewriting Herman Wouk's The Winds of War for decades now. He uses the same global sweep, he lets the...more
What can I say, I love alt history stories and Turtledove is one of the masters. Though I enjoy many of his other books, nothing has grabbed my interest as much as this particular series did. I couldn't wait for each new book to come out and now that the series is over I feel kind of lost wondering where I'll go from here.
As for the book itself, if you know any history, you can pretty much see how things will turn out so there weren't really any surprises. What makes the book so i...more
As for the book itself, if you know any history, you can pretty much see how things will turn out so there weren't really any surprises. What makes the book so i...more
The master of alternative history wraps up his masterpiece. This was a long series -- one ripe for more books, though I fear what could come next -- beginning with the simple premise that during the Civil War, Gen. Lee's orders to his army did not fall into Union hands. That one change sets off a cascade of difference, with the South winning the Civil War and culminating in a very different WWII where the U.S. is allied with the Kaiser against the C.S.A., England and France. For pure alternative...more
A great end to an incredible journey. It is hard to believe this started so long ago and that we've been following these characters, these families, these countries for so many years (both real and written). I cannot say anything without spoiling who lives, who dies and who wins. If you started, like me, with How Few Remain then you will be rewarded for lasting this long and seeing the end of the tale.
Bravo Mr. Turledove after 10 books, you still left me wanting more, but all my que...more
Bravo Mr. Turledove after 10 books, you still left me wanting more, but all my que...more
Whoo! I'm so glad I've finished the series. The bad guys got theirs in the end, and it was good to see that justice was served, although of course justice is never perfect.
There's more to this story (a couple more series) and although I've read one of them, I have not read the last one. After a while I will definitely give it a read - this universe is one that really intrigues me.
There's more to this story (a couple more series) and although I've read one of them, I have not read the last one. After a while I will definitely give it a read - this universe is one that really intrigues me.
The early books in this series were so promising. This last one was just dreadful - ponderous and predictable and crushingly dull. I started skimming by the 1/2way point, because it was just too tiring to try to maintain any interest in the story
Not bad...not the best in the series. I spent the second half of the book wondering what Turtledove was waiting for to end the book. As it turns out, not much...it just kind of ends.
Maybe someone else can confirm, but I'm pretty sure that this is the end of the rather massive Timeline 191series. From "How Few Remain" we've had eleven volumes?
The whole series was rather good I thought, but things become more and more forced once Turtledove had committed him...more
Maybe someone else can confirm, but I'm pretty sure that this is the end of the rather massive Timeline 191series. From "How Few Remain" we've had eleven volumes?
The whole series was rather good I thought, but things become more and more forced once Turtledove had committed him...more
A fairly good ending to an alternative view of the civil war. The development of the characters throughout the enitre series was well done and I did not notice any major inconsistencies. The cause of death for Jake Featherston was somewhat of a letdown, in that I expecetd there to be a little more drama associated with it. The final wrap up of the storyline is somewhat anticlimatic but is to be expected. How can you effectively end a series that has been in development and publication for ma...more
The first and last books of this series were the most engaging. I think this was a pretty good conclusion to the series. Definitely more interesting than the 2nd and 3rd books!
The final volume in Turtlrdove's epic alturnative history pitting the USA and CSA on opposite side in World War II. After the CSA sneaks an atomic bomb into Philidelphia, The USA retailiates with bombings of Newport News and Charleston, SC. Eventually leading to the CSA's defeat.
This is a solid conclusion to Turtledove's epic 10-book (or is it 11?) alternate history series. It wraps everything up fairly well, but after so much time invested in the series, I found it a little anticlimactic. The series is told from a wide variety of characters' perspectives, and this approach works quite well for the most part. But at the end of the series, I had hoped for Turtledove to give some kind of epilogue to it all and provide a bit more closure than just the end of the war.
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So it's finally over! It's kind of hard to believe.
I would have to say that the ending was kind of expected, but I thought it was satisfying none the less. Others hoping for something edgier will probably disagree, but for me, having followed this world since "Guns Of The South", I'm OK with it all.
Still, I'm kind of hoping that Turtledove will revisit this timeline after another 20 years or so have passed.
I would have to say that the ending was kind of expected, but I thought it was satisfying none the less. Others hoping for something edgier will probably disagree, but for me, having followed this world since "Guns Of The South", I'm OK with it all.
Still, I'm kind of hoping that Turtledove will revisit this timeline after another 20 years or so have passed.
Fitting conclusion to an excellent series. Not a lot of suspense since the writing was on the wall by the end of the preceding novel, but still quite satisfying. My only regret now is no longer having this exciting series to turn to.
The last of an 11-book series. Wish it could have been more. It seemed that Turtledove rushed through the last book in order to get it over. The characters we've come to know deserved better. Still, as a piece of alternate history, it captures the possible as well as any "what if" series could.
Decent ending, but the final scene was really annoying. Harry really needs a nicotine patch or something.
A gripping ending to a stunning detailed alternative reality of war.
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