In How Few Remain, Harry Turtledove set the stage for his
stunning alternate history of World War I. Now, with The
Great War: American Front, he carries this towering epic
into the early twentieth century in a bold re-imagining of
the fateful war that hurtled humanity into the modern
age. Envision a divided America--one camp led by Theodore
Roosevelt, the other by Woodrow Wilson--in the most
explosive conflict humankind has seen, where global war is
waged with sophisticated weaponry on American soil for the
first time in history.When the Great War engulfed Europe
in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of
America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray
on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the
newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy joined forces
with their allies, Britain and France. But it soon became
clear to both sides that this fight would be different--
that war itself would never be the same again. For this
was to be a protracted, global conflict waged with new
and chillingly efficient innovations--the machine gun,
the airplane, poison gas, and trench warfare.In the
Americas, the fighting spread like wildfire on multiple
and far-flung fronts. The U.S. Army invaded the South,
striking in Virginia, Kentucky, and the West and assaulted
Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. As President Theodore
Roosevelt rallied the diverse ethnic groups of the
northern states--Irish and Italians, Mormons and Jews--
Confederate President Woodrow Wilson struggled to hold
together a Confederacy still beset by ignorance,
prejudice, and class divisions. And as the war raged on,
southern blacks, oppressed for generations, are fatefully
drawn into a climactic confrontation.In The Great War:
American Front, Harry Turtledove creates a vast, vibrant
canvas that blends actual events and players with a
history as it might have been. This unforgettable,
deeply moving, and superbly original novel is a triumph of
the creative imagination.