title: Walk In Hell (The Great War, Book 2)
author:  Harry Turtledove 
description: &quot;The leading author of alternate history.&quot;<br>--USA Today
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  ## Walk in Hell
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Great War - 2 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Harry Turtledove
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Harry Turtledove
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Walk in Hell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Who are these? Why sit they here in twilight? Wherefore rock they,
  purgatorial shadows, Drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish, Baring
  teeth that leer like skulls’ teeth wicked? Stroke on stroke of pain, — but
  what slow panic, Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets? Ever from
  their hair and through their hands’ palms Misery swelters. Surely we have
  perished Sleeping, and walk in hell; but who these hellish?”
  
  
  — Wilfred Owens, “Mental Cases”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  George Enos looked across the Mississippi toward Illinois. The river was wide,
  but not wide enough to let him forget it was only a river. Here in St. Louis,
  he was, beyond any possible doubt, in the middle of the 