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Turtledove is the master of alternate history and has a seemingly infinite number of variations on that theme. This is possibly his most popular book though, and the first of his I ever read--recommended to me by a history teacher of my acquaintance. In this novel, supporters of apartheid in South Africa go back in time to try to change the outcome of the American Civil War in the hopes they'd have allies in the future that could change the course of their own history. The military parts are wel
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An outstanding revisionist history imagining South African whites taking AK47s back to the Army of Northern Virginia in the hopes of changing the course of world wide emancipation and civil rights. Extremely well researched and written. Highly recommended.
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