The Great War: Breakthroughs

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The Great War: Breakthroughs
LC Class
PS3570.U76 G743 2000
Preceded byThe Great War: Walk in Hell 
Followed byAmerican Empire: Blood and Iron 

The Great War: Breakthroughs is the third and final installment of the

Great War trilogy in the Southern Victory series of alternate history novels by Harry Turtledove.[1]
It takes the Southern Victory Series to 1917.

Plot summary

It's 1917, the

armored forces more quickly and in greater numbers than the CSA. Their mobile "barrel" (tank) offensive proves decisive, as weak Confederate lines are unable to resist General George Armstrong Custer's advance towards Nashville, Tennessee. In the east, the U.S. are finally able to liberate Washington, D.C.
from Confederate forces, though leveling most of the city in the process.

The

Third French Republic and the establishment of a new monarchy under King Charles XI by 1930). The United Kingdom is cut off from important food shipments from Argentina after Brazil abandons the neutrality it had held since the beginning of the war and allies with Chile and Paraguay to attack Argentina
.

By late July 1917, the CSA are in such dire condition that the country is forced to ask the USA for an

Bahamas, and Bermuda
to the US.

Germany wins the war in

Protestants
periodically rebel against Irish rule.

separate kingdoms under German influence, but Russia retains Finland
as a province.

Italy has remained neutral through the entire war, and later volumes make clear that Benito Mussolini remains an obscure politician who never holds high office.

One Confederate submarine captain named Roger Kimball commits a war crime when he torpedoes and sinks a U.S. destroyer after the U.S.-C.S. armistice took effect, an incident soon to become notorious in postwar politics.

Reception

Jackie Cassada in her review for Library Journal said "alternate history's grand master displays his acute knowledge of American history as well as his keen imagination as he paints a vivid portrait of a past that could have been."[2] Publishers Weekly said "although a complete and skilfully executed tale in itself, this epic story leaves enough plot threads dangling to demand a fourth novel to tie them up."[3] Don D'Ammassa reviewing for Science Fiction Chronicle said in this novel "the author concentrates more on fictional characters caught up in the conflict, and while it may not provide as many amusing alterations of historical fact, it makes for a much better story. Fans of alternate history, military SF, and riveting adventure fiction should all find this one entertaining."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Uchronia: Great War Multi-Series (Southern Victory)". www.uchronia.net.
  2. ISSN 0363-0277
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  3. ISSN 0000-0019
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  4. ISSN 0195-5365
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