The Great War: American Front
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| Author | Harry Turtledove |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Great War |
| Genre(s) | Alternate history novel |
| Publisher | Ballantine |
| Publication date | May 12, 1998 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 503 |
| ISBN | 034540615X |
| OCLC Number | 38081533 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Classification | PS3570.U76 G74 1998 |
| Preceded by | How Few Remain |
| Followed by | The Great War: Walk in Hell |
The Great War: American Front is the first alternate history novel in the Great War trilogy by Harry Turtledove. It is part II of Turtledove's Timeline-191 series of novels. It takes the Timeline-191 Earth from 1914 to 1915.
[edit] Plot summary
After a prologue with Robert E. Lee smashing the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in October 1862, and the subsequent Anglo-French diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America, the novel begins on June 28, 1914, the same day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.
World War I breaks out and spreads to North America, where the pro-German United States under Theodore Roosevelt declares war on Woodrow Wilson's CSA, which is allied with Great Britain and France. After initial US invasions of Kentucky, British-run Canada, and western Virginia, and CS invasions of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the conflict bogs down into trench warfare. Across the Mississippi River, in the western part of the continent, the conflict is a war of movement.
The novel ends in the autumn of 1915, with the beginning of a Marxist black rebellion against the war-distracted government of the CSA.
Most of the characters in the book are small-time folks being caught up in the bigger world of a global war. One main character in the book whose destiny will be intertwined with that of the twentieth century is an artillery sergeant named Jake Featherston.
This book is followed by The Great War: Walk in Hell, and then The Great War: Breakthroughs.
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