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Title: Disappointing
Review: Turtledove's The Great war: Walk in Hell has few virtues. It has poor character development and literally none that are sympathetic. Its treatment of blacks is particularly offensive. In Turtledove's world blacks are as despised in the north as they are in the south. Yet after being crushed in a Marxist rebellion, blacks are welcomed into the southern army where they flock to fight for the country that held them as chatel and continues to ruthlessly suppress them. The book does a disservice to the 100,000 blacks who fought for the north. Basically the book is an excuse to demean blacks and to use the n-word.
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