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THE
GREAT WAR: WALK IN HELL
Written
by Harry Turttledove
Reviewed
by John J. Rust
World
War One with a twist. It's 1915 and war still rages across the
North American continent between the U.S. and the Confederate
States of America.
A
total winner. Turttledove shows how the war is going through the
eyes of several characters. Soldiers in the trenches, Canadians
living under U.S. rule, civilians both North and South. I thought
he did a better job bringing the fighting to life in the first
book American Front. Here he concentrates more on the impact
the war has on people, both soldiers and civilians. Those who
were pumped up when the war began in 1914 are disillusioned or
only care about making it out alive. Rationing, death notices
from Western Union and crippled soldiers are shown throughout
the book. Besides the regular war-fighting, the USA must deal
with a Mormon uprising in Utah while Negroes start a Communist
Revolution in the CSA.
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