I am about 200 pages away from the end of Harry Turtledove’s How Few Remain. Like The Guns Of The South, which I read in August it is about an alternate American history where the South won the Civil War. Unlike that first novel, though, the victory in this case came as a result of miltary victory, in late 1862 in Pennsylvania, rather than the intervention of time travellers.
The book itself takes place 20 years after this hypothetical Southern victory. The CSA has allied itself with the UK and France and acquired two Pacific provinces from the Empire of Mexico. The USA, increasingly isolated from the world and bitter about its defeat 20 years earlier, aims to stop the acquisition, which would make the CSA a coast-to-coast nation just like the USA. What follows is a journey across the battlefields of this Second Civil War as we meet historical figures from a young Teddy Roosevelt to a dejected and despised Abraham Lincoln.
I am enjoying this book immensely and will have more to say when I’ve finished it, which should be this weekend.
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