Alternate Generals II eBook Harry Turtledove
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LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE . . .
... as history demonstrates. But there are other factors at work. Would Sir Francis Drake have as easily put paid to the Spanish Armada if a typhoon hadn't softened up the enemy first What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea had more (or fewer) forces, better (or worse) weather, quicker (or slower) communications, better supplies (or none at all) Just suppose, for example, General Billy Mitchell had not been court-martialed for advocating air power, and happened to be leading training flights of warplanes at Pearl Harbor in December 1941
As it happens, to find out the answer to that question, pick up the first book in the series, Alternate Generals, from Baen. This new volume has even more fascinating speculations in alternate history science fiction, turning history upside down and inside out as leaders who have made their mark on our history make different marks in a very different world.
The possibilities are endless. . . .
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Harry Turtledove is known for his historical fantasy and alternate history. His novels include The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, Sentry Peak, Marching Through Peachtree, The Guns of the South, and the Great War and World at War series. A Hugo winner and Nebula finalist, he lives in Los Angeles.
Alternate Generals II eBook Harry Turtledove
This is a collection of stories that are entertaining to read but not gripping, it was worth $6.73 I do not think so; I have read much more gripping stories for less and they held you spell bound with the story line these did not.Product details
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Alternate Generals II eBook Harry Turtledove Reviews
In the past decade or so, a small group of science fiction authors and editors have made a sort of cottage industry of original anthologies of alternate history stories. Some are quite good, some are exceedingly mediocre. Several in this latest collection feature both an excellent grasp of historical cause and effect and writing of high quality, including "American Mandate," by Jim Fiscus, in which Gens. Smedley Butler and John Pershing find themselves trying to carry out the League of Nations mandate in the old Ottoman empire against the revolutionary forces of Mustapha Kemal. Another is Joel Richards's "In the Prison of His Days," which tells of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin and William Butler Yeats's part in it. "George Patton Slept Here," by Roland S. Green, shows a close grasp of the details of the Italian campaign in 1943, this time led by a Patton who kept his job by managing not to slap around battle-fatigued soldiers. Chris Bunch's "Tarnished Glory," on the other hand, is the sort of quasi-alternate history that just irritates the hell out of me. He has George Armstrong Custer being born in 1885 so as to take part in WWII in the Patton role -- except that Custer's buddy Patton died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and Custer screws up in the Battle of the Bulge instead of Sicily. The thing is, you can't just snatch a historical personage out of his proper time and plunk him down otherwhen, and pretend that his personality will still be what it was! Nurture matters at least as much as nature, and context counts! Anyway. There are a couple of other stories here of particular interest, especially Michael Flynn's "Southern Strategy," about a League of Nations incursion into the American South, and "Devil's Bargain," in which Judith Tarr allows Richard the Lion-Hearted to succeed in his quest for Jerusalem. "Horizon," by Noreen Doyle, though, is a confused and not very readable story of Akhenaten as a military conqueror, written in a style presumably meant to be reminiscent of the Book of the Dead. Susan Schwartz's "And the Glory of Them," about Behemond's conquest of Antioch, portrays the 11th century king as having almost 20th century attitudes. As much as I enjoy this particular sf theme -- when it's well done -- maybe it's time we gave it a rest.
are doomed to repeat it.
2.5 stars
Here Turtledove does not learn from the mistakes of the first volume and repeats them. I could, changing story details, almost cut and paste my review of Alternate Generals I.
Again, without an author or editor's foreword to these stories explaining the actual historical background in most cases the casual but well educated reader will be lost at sea reading some of these stories.
Obscurity aside, most of the stories are languid, slow-paced with really no interest to catch the reader's attention. Including a ridiculous story about a 3 year pregnant Japanese empress. Turtledove may enjoy quiet interlude pieces about the crusades as he has included them in both volumes but I miss the appeal of them.
There are again a handful of good stories saving this from being abysmal. Teddy Roosevelt and Pancho Villa together, Napoleon the Emperor of New Orleans both succeed not on the strength of their premise but by the talent of the storyteller who makes the charatcters likeable and engaging. Too many though are long, dry and feel like they were written to fill a word count with no emotional involvement from the author.
I am generally a fan, and advocate, of the shorter form of storytelling but this volume just doesn't work for me.
Alternate history can be fun, but requires a knowledge of history well beyond what most public high schools give their students.
All of the stories were either fun, educational or both. Speculations about what "might have been" gives us insights into what is.
Read the book. Enjoy stretching your brain.
I would say that only 2 or 3 of the stories were for the alternate history fan, where the difference in the story would be a large visible difference in the world today. Maybe the other stories needed a blurb on what actually happened for a better appreciation by readers with a lack of knowledge of that person or event.
This is a collection of stories that are entertaining to read but not gripping, it was worth $6.73 I do not think so; I have read much more gripping stories for less and they held you spell bound with the story line these did not.
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