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Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One)

Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One) - Paperback

by Harry Turtledove
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Availability:In StockContributor:Harry TurtledoveSeries:Settling Accounts Trilogy #1Publish date:2005-06-28Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House WorldsISBN-13:9780345464057ISBN-10:345464052UPC:9780345464057Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Alternative History, War & Military, Science FictionBook Topic:MilitarySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC8J8KA46N
" Harry Turtledove] handles his huge cast with admirable skill. The insights into racial politics elevate this novel to a status above mere entertainment, although it provides that aplenty."--Publishers Weekly

It's 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world--but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its former glory.

Behind this fa ade of world order, America is a bomb waiting to explode. Jake Featherston, the megalomaniacal leader of the Confederate States of America, is just the man to light the fuse. Opposite him is Al Smith, a Socialist U.S. president in the Philadelphia White House. Smith is a living symbol of hope for a nation that has been through the hell of war and depression.

Featherston and his Freedom Party are determined to conquer their Northern neighbor at any cost. After crushing a Negro rebellion in his own nation, Featherston sends Confederate army planes to attack Philadelphia. In the aftermath of the CSA blitzkrieg, the war machine spins a vortex of destruction, betrayal, and fury that no one--not even Jake Featherston himself--can control.

"Turtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. Return Engagement features] strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background."--Kirkus Reviews

"Another absorbing installment of Turtledove's] character-centered alternate-history saga."--Booklist
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House WorldsISBN-13:9780345464057ISBN-10:345464052UPC:9780345464057Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Alternative History, War & Military, Science FictionBook Topic:MilitarySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC8J8KA46N
Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler's War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d'Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters--Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca--and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.
Publisher: Random House Worlds

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