Two Fronts
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Turtledove's new variation on the theme of WWII is departing more and more from the original, sometimes in subtle ways (the Tiger tank is the Mark V instead of the Mark VI) and sometimes in less subtle ones (Sergeant Fujita flies on missions to drop bacteriological weapons on Hawaii, making life uneasy for marine Pete McGill, and Herb Druse gets a certain research project in Tennessee canceled). The lot of the poor bloody infantrymen, however, does not change it's still miserable, and for Wilhelm Deming, fatal. Meanwhile, British sergeant Walsh, French lieutenant Demange, and Czech sniper Vaclav Havacek are still full of fight, the first two on a French front bolstered by lend-lease supplies and the third in Spain. Hans Rudel continues to enjoy a charmed life in his tank-busting Stuka, while Julius Lemp takes his U-30 into Arctic waters, where he unbolts his record by sinking a British aircraft carrier. The real pressure for an explosion is building up in Germany, as dissatisfaction with the progress (or regress) of the war is building. The center of the dissent is in Munster, where newly widowed Sarah Bruck is dealing with it up close and personal and finding that not all Germans think of Jews as untermenschen. What's next is anybody's guess, except that it will almost certainly be more surprises.--Green, Roland Copyright 2010 Booklist
Kirkus Book Review
Turtledove (Coup d'Etat, 2012, etc.) delivers the fifth installment in his latest series--a final volume is promised--developing an alternate-history version of World War II. This widescreen Technicolor what-if began with Turtledove's 2009 novel Hitler's War, which portrayed a World War II starting with a 1938 German invasion of Czechoslovakia. Real history and Turtledove's imaginary version continued to diverge thereafter, as Britain and France allied themselves with Nazi Germany to battle the communist Soviet Union. The U.S. goes to war with Japan while avoiding the European theater, and in Spain, fascist Nationalists with German backing wage trench warfare against mingled Communists and Republicans allied with free Czechs and independently operating Americans and British. Now, however--and we've only reached 1942--following an anti-fascist coup, Britain has joined with France to open a western front against Germany. Again, the number of plotlines and characters can be bewildering: frontline soldiers on the European western and eastern fronts, sailors and marines on Hawaii, Japanese pilots in China, civilian Americans and German Jews, Ukrainian partisans and Czech snipers, among others. Inevitably, major historical figures merely rate a mention or die offstage in plausible fashion. Patience is a necessary virtue when reading Turtledove's slow, knowledgeable, scattershot saga, and any earlier impressions of his building toward some earth-shattering conclusion are shown, here, to be quite incorrect. Instead, Turtledove embeds many small, subtle hints--to reveal them would be to give the game away--that his real objective is to paint, brush stroke by brush stroke, a postwar landscape quite different than the one that prevailed in the real world. Stick with it--there will be surprises, just not the ones you were expecting.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Reviews
Turtledove's new variation on the theme of WWII is departing more and more from the original, sometimes in subtle ways (the Tiger tank is the Mark V instead of the Mark VI) and sometimes in less subtle ones (Sergeant Fujita flies on missions to drop bacteriological weapons on Hawaii, making life uneasy for marine Pete McGill, and Herb Druse gets a certain research project in Tennessee canceled). The lot of the poor bloody infantrymen, however, does not change—it's still miserable, and for Wilhelm Deming, fatal. Meanwhile, British sergeant Walsh, French lieutenant Demange, and Czech sniper Vaclav Havacek are still full of fight, the first two on a French front bolstered by lend-lease supplies and the third in Spain. Hans Rudel continues to enjoy a charmed life in his tank-busting Stuka, while Julius Lemp takes his U-30 into Arctic waters, where he unbolts his record by sinking a British aircraft carrier. The real pressure for an explosion is building up in Germany, as dissatisfaction with the progress (or regress) of the war is building. The center of the dissent is in Münster, where newly widowed Sarah Bruck is dealing with it up close and personal and finding that not all Germans think of Jews as untermenschen. What's next is anybody's guess, except that it will almost certainly be more surprises. Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
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Turtledove, H., & McLaren, T. (2013). Two Fronts (Unabridged). Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Turtledove, Harry and Todd McLaren. 2013. Two Fronts. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Turtledove, Harry and Todd McLaren. Two Fronts Tantor Media, Inc, 2013.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Turtledove, H. and McLaren, T. (2013). Two fronts. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Turtledove, Harry, and Todd McLaren. Two Fronts Unabridged, Tantor Media, Inc, 2013.
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