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Bezig met laden... The Great War: Breakthroughsdoor Harry Turtledove
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Audiobook ( ) "The American Front" -- the motives of the war. "Walk in Hell" -- the machinery of the war. "Breakthroughs" -- the fallout of the war. At the end of the war, the characters who fought in "Breakthroughs" are divided into two diverse camps. In one is the Let's Never Do This Again Camp. Some here wanted to punish the losers, preventing them from rising again, and others wanted to refrain from doing so. "Let them hate, as long as they fear." The other camp is the "Let's Get This War Behind Us So We Can Get Thinking About the Next One." I think bitterness runs deep in both. Comparisons from WWI to today: I saw a comparison in the book between the Socialist and Democratic Parties and today's Democratic and Republican Parties. The coal board bureaucracy reminded me of LIHEAP, food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Unemployment. Don't even get me started about trying to get Social Security Disability. Back in WWI, a woman would lose her job to take off work to take care of her child/loved one. Despite current laws, this still happens today. If she works full-time, she will get paid only until her paid leave runs out. If she works part-time, she will get paid leave for the time off. There is no guarantee she will have a job when she comes back. Wages rose but so did everything else, sometimes higher than the wages. With the third book in the Great War series, Turtledove brings his alternate WWI, if not the series, to a close. There's nothing really startling here as far as alternate depictions of military technology or history. The peace treaty imposed on the Confederacy is obviously modelled on the Treaty of Versailles -- and has an even greater potential for cheating. Politically, of course, a victorious Germany on the Continent has profound implications for the future. As in our history, armored breakthroughs end the stalemate of trench warfare. Here the idea comes from an unlikely source: George Armstrong Custer, whose single notable quality, for good or ill, is aggressiveness. A noted variation from our timeline is an earlier linkage of air power with naval power. But the real attraction of the book is to find out what happens to the characters we've followed in earlier books. Some benefit in unexpected ways from war. Some suffer. And some don't survive the war. Some carry on the fight after the armistice, and others begin to prepare for what they believe will be another war between the United States and the Confederacy. The most interesting development is that one embittered Confederate veteran seems on his way to becoming a Hitlerian figure in the series' future. The ending to the Great War series. Overall, the best book of the three. If you made it this far in the series, you know the deal. Same players as histories WWI, just different sides and in different areas of the world. This story starts off fast and keeps going. Different characters continue to build upon within the story, and you learn a lot about the ongoing war through their eyes. The last book was worth the first two being a little slow at times. I still thought they themselves were solid reads. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is it the war to end all wars - or war without end? It is 1917, and the United States are fighting a war on two fronts. In the north, from the Pacific to Quebec, US forces in the air and on land are locked in battle against Canada and Great Britain. To the south, at the heart of a line that stretches from the Gulf of California to the Atlantic, General Custer intends to do what none of his predecessors have done - to smash through the Confederate lines in Tennessee. Into this vast, seething cauldron plunges a new generation of weapons - submarines, barrels, attack planes, poison gas and flame throwers - changing the shape of war and the balance of power. 'The wizard of If.' Chicago Sun-Times 'The standard-bearer for alternate history.' USA Today Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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