In the tenth volume
As has always been the case, it is in his depictions of battle that Turtledove is at his best. At the same time, though, he does a fabulous job of showing us the view of this Second Great War from a variety of viewpoint characters from each side of the conflict. Characters that have been with us since nearly the beginning of the series are senselessly murdered in the holocaust of the Confederacy’s black citizens while others, charged with guarding the camps where they are murdered, succumb to the immorality of what they’ve done and take matters into their own hands.
By the end of the novel, the fate of the war seems to be clear. The USA has advanced into Georgia and have finally succeeded in uncovering devastating evidence of the Negro Holocaust. Nearly nothing stands between the combined might of the United States and Atlanta, Georgia, the gateway between the eastern and western halves of the Confederacy. And, yet, in the background, there is the race for a new technology — nuclear weapons. Every nation in the world is on the fight, and the USA and CSA both know that the other is looking to unlock the secret first. Whoever does it will win the war. And, that, I think, is what we will see unfold when the final volume in the series comes out in July.
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December 31st, 2006 at 12:26 pm
I am an avid follower of this line of books…in order to keep the franchise going but re-energize it, I predict that ultimately both sides get the bomb, and both sides use it…but Featherstone is killed at some point, so both sides fall into a MAD co-existence…sort of like the Koreas.