American Empire: Blood and Iron

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American Empire: Blood and Iron
LC Class
PS3570.U76 A8 2001
Preceded byThe Great War: Breakthroughs 
Followed byAmerican Empire: The Center Cannot Hold 

American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the

Great War trilogy, and is part of the Southern Victory series.[2]

Blood and Iron covers events directly following the closing events of The Great War: Breakthroughs. It takes the TL-191 Earth from 1917 to 1924.

Plot summary

The Great War is over, with the

fascistic Freedom Party and uses it as his platform for beginning to take over the Confederate government and exact revenge on both the USA and the groups he perceives as having "stabbed the CSA in the back": Black Southerners, the Southern aristocracy
, and the Whig Party. He soon takes over as leader of the Party and unleashes angry veterans on his enemies.

The USA's conservative government, meanwhile, and

military
. Sinclair is inaugurated president of the United States on March 4, 1921 to much rejoicing from the Socialist party.

Later in 1921, Jake Featherston runs for office against Wade Hampton V of the Whigs and Ainsworth Layne of the Radical Liberals. Featherston loses by a narrow margin to Hampton, but resolves to fight on. In June 1922, President Hampton is

Great War. Popular distrust in the Freedom Party and the newfound strength of Confederate paper money leads to support for the newly appointed Whig President Burton Mitchel. The United States' Socialists also have no better notion about what to do with the blacks in North America
, and ignore the plight of those in the Confederacy.

In

Mexican Emperor
Maximilian III.

Literary significance and reception

Peter Canon in his review for Publishers Weekly said that "watching historical processes in action is the novel's real attraction. Knowing what happened in our timeline, readers will want to imagine the results of different choices."[3] Don D'Ammassa writing for the Science Fiction Chronicle found this book more interesting than the last three because "Turtledove spends more time with his characters and with the motives behind the various developments rather than dwelling on the inevitable military encounters."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Uchronia: Great War Multi-Series (Southern Victory)". www.uchronia.net.
  2. ^ "AMERICAN EMPIRE: BLOOD AND IRON". Kirkus Reviews. 1 June 2001. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  3. ISSN 0000-0019
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  4. ISSN 0195-5365
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