Alternate Generals II

By Harry Turtledove

Book Overview

Alternate Generals II This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743471865
• ISBN13: 9780743471862
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Baen
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

I give this a top review based on 1 story,Southern Strategy

There are a number of good stories here, however it is worth the money just for Southern Strategy. The brilliance of Richard Nixon is truly revealed and how the nation is saved from foreign domination and occupation. Of course Tricky Dick has the help of two other truly great American, Dutch Reagan and Elvis. Would love to see sequels like Nixon as president a full eight years, Reagan president for eight more years, and a constitutional change letting Elvis serve twelve to sixteen years. Wow, what a wonderful and beautiful vision! Lefties out there won't like the story or my review. Too bad.

Packed with many surprising twists of plot

Harry Turtledove continues his fascination with alternative history with Alternate Generals 2, which paints some very different pictures of history as it might have been. From an alternate story of Richard de Lion, King of the English to a new view of Custer, this is packed with many surprising twists of plot.

Uneven in spots, but well worth reading.

Alternate history can be fun, but requires a knowledge of history well beyond what most public high schools give their students.All of the stories were either fun, educational or both. Speculations about what "might have been" gives us insights into what is. Read the book. Enjoy stretching your brain.

Enjoyable Alternate History

Science fiction anthologies have gotten tired in recent years, perhaps reflecting a general malaise in the field over the past decade as the last of the Golden Age giants, Asimov, Anderson and Dickson, for example, have died and no authors of similar stature appear on the horizon. I am pleased to state that this volume defies the trend. The stories in this volume are, on the whole, well written and imaginative. From a world where Patton didn't slap the soldier in Sicily, to a world where the League of Nations occupies parts of the American South, the stories weave entertaining might have beens. I especially liked the story where Custer meets his end at the Battle of the Bulge!