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Drive to the East (Settling Accounts #2)
Harry Turtledove–the master of alternate history–has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world.
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the U...more
In 1914, the First World War ignited a brutal conflict in North America, with the U...more
Hardcover, 594 pages
Published
August 9th 2005
by Del Rey
(first published January 1st 2005)
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Apr 02, 2009
Michael
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Anyone who likes Alternative
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The book that I read was Drive to the East by Harry Turtledove. This is the second book in the series of Settling Accounts. The genre of the book is Alternate History. It is alternate history because it is a “what if the South had won the Civil War.” The book takes place in 1942 the second year of the war between the USA and the CSA. The war started in 1941 when Jake Featherston, the president of the CSA, breaks the armistice between the United States and the Confederate States and decides to...more
In Drive to the East, Harry Turtledove has written one of the better Southern Victory novels since he crafted the spectacular opening salvo, How Few Remain. Alas, given the nature of modern warfare and barbarism, this novel is far grimmer than most of its predecessors. The black holocaust is in full swing in the Confederate States; Turtledove's accounts of the emptying of entire cities and the coldblooded extermination of men, women, and "pickanninies" is chilling. As other reviewers have noted,...more
Turtledove is in his element in this last segment of his multi-part "Timeline 191" series, which deals with an alternate Second World War between the USA, the Confederacy, and their respective European allies. DRIVE TO THE EAST is well plotted and features characters who, while two dimensional, are fairly distinctive; after following some of them for six or seven volumes one actually cares about what happens to them, even morally opprobrious characters like Jefferson Pinkard. The book was clearl...more
This is the second book in the "Settling Accounts" tetrology (I think that's the word), in which he details the Second World War, concentrating on the struggle between the United States and the Confederate States of America.
In the first book, the CSA started the war and immediately headed up into Ohio to the Canadian border, cutting the US in two. The US tried attack after attack into Virginia, and made a little progress, but not near enough.
In this book, we see the war through 1942 and a little...more
In the first book, the CSA started the war and immediately headed up into Ohio to the Canadian border, cutting the US in two. The US tried attack after attack into Virginia, and made a little progress, but not near enough.
In this book, we see the war through 1942 and a little...more
Mar 23, 2013
Holden Attradies
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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I have enjoyed every book in this series (well... accept maybe the first) and perhaps this one most of all. Turtledove's writing has gotten better with each book he publishes and the story it's self is just at a really exciting point. I was left both wanting to jump into and through the next two volumes yet maybe wanting to take them slow being I know the series is over then.
The tipping point of the war comes pretty suddenly in this, and you do start to get this clear picture of a smaller countr...more
The tipping point of the war comes pretty suddenly in this, and you do start to get this clear picture of a smaller countr...more
Apr 22, 2008
The other John
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4 of 5 stars
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Turtledove's best work since the alien invasion during WWII series, hands down. Here, he builds upon the concept of the South winning the Civil War and brings it to WWII... a very different, yet similar WWII. Great series. He does have the pitfall of over-using certain images and phrases. I began to chuckle at how many times a certain character spoke a phrase into a dead phone line. Every single time that character was on the phone with one certain character, it ended that way. But overall, this...more
This is the second installment in the third American Empire trilogy (if that makes sense)!
The writing is still crisp and characterization still rich but I think Turtledove has relied too much on a strict analogy between the Nazi policies and those of Jake Featherston's Confederate States of America. His reluctance to take atomic weaponry seriously and his concentration camp policies are a bit too redolent of the latter days of the Third Reich. Also, some of the characters seem to garner too much...more
The writing is still crisp and characterization still rich but I think Turtledove has relied too much on a strict analogy between the Nazi policies and those of Jake Featherston's Confederate States of America. His reluctance to take atomic weaponry seriously and his concentration camp policies are a bit too redolent of the latter days of the Third Reich. Also, some of the characters seem to garner too much...more
Good stuff - like the whole line of books that led up to this one, an intricate exploration of how history might be different if the chain of events had zigged instead of zagging back in the middle of the Civil War. Well thought out, believable, and thought-provoking.
Mar 30, 2013
Kelli
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The second book in the series is much like the first - filled with tales of derring-do and the horrible moral choices that being at war forces people to make. It's kept me interested enough that I find I have to read the next one, just to see how things turn out.
Alternative history. Parallels the Stalingrad from WWII.
I can tell this is a middle volume in a series. The War has a turning point with the North's defence at Pittsburgh. Poor Cleveland though. Even in a tale of fiction they can't win.
A good read. All of my critiscisms of the previous book still stand.
Wasn't the best of the trilogies...and I wish there was still a story line/character set in Canada. I spent the whole book wanting to know what was happening there! At this point I have gotten used to calling tanks "barrels" though!
Sep 21, 2007
Robert Shultz
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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Relentless drive to the final showdown with the CSA. The final novel in the series is ahead and I can't wait to see how it ends.
The series started getting really predictable from here on out.
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Dr Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced a sizeable number of works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.
Harry Turtledove attended UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history in 1977.
Turtledove has been dubbed "The Master of Alternate History". Within this genre he is known both for creating original sce...more
More about Harry Turtledove...
Harry Turtledove attended UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in Byzantine history in 1977.
Turtledove has been dubbed "The Master of Alternate History". Within this genre he is known both for creating original sce...more
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