Breakthroughs
Author: Harry Turtledove
This is third part of the Great War trilogy (after Walk in Hell) and the 5th volume in Harry Turtledove’s epic alternative history of the USA, in which the South is victorious in the American Civil War. It began with The Guns of the South, continues How Few Remain and goes on in Turtledove’s American Empire and Settling Accounts sequences…..Read More
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