The Guns of the South (Audiobook)

from joyceclark

I bought this book after hearing parts of it read aloud on NPR. It's the first novel my husband has sat down and read in over a year. I am always encouraging him to take a book when he travels, but usually he just watches TV or plays videogames to relax. Harry Turtledove struck a chord. He devour...

from LisaMaria_C

Turtledove is the master of alternate history and has a seemingly infinite number of variations on that theme. This is possibly his most popular book though, and the first of his I ever read--recommended to me by a history teacher of my acquaintance. In this novel, supporters of apartheid in Sout...

from neverwondernights

Quite enjoyable through and through. Robert E. Lee and Nate Caudell were both wonderful main characters, and each worth their part in the story. Turtledove did indeed do his research, as he often does, quite well. The only turn down was a chapter worth of a battle scene, however does more to acce...

from spinetingler

In some ways, the novel that "started it all" for Harry. I read this way back when it first came out, and then kind of forgot about Turtledove until about 2000. At that point I realized that I had a lot of catching up to do! A note of warning to prospective readers - this novel has absolutely not...

from wwjules

Turtledove's regular convention of asking a "what-if" about history, then carrying it through, is entertaining. The idea of the South winning the war, and then dealing with the ramifications of that, is really interesting. What I found more interesting, though, as a history and government teacher...