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Title: Excellent, but a work in progress
Review: It becomes obvious towards the end of The Great War: American Front, that all the loose ends are not going to be tied up. I am pleased, because it whets my appetite for the succeeding volumes in this alternate history. Turtledove is not creating a utopia here, this world in which the South defeated the North in the 1860s and again in the 1880s is a much poorer and more dangerous world than our own. Nor is this a story of good vs evil. Both sides commit brutalities as a matter of course, and there is no high flown rhetoric about saving democracy or ending war forever. This World War I is openly about aggression and power. I await the succeeding volumes breathlessly.
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