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Subject: Re: "Armistice" by Harry Turtledove
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:18:18 -0700
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On 10/23/2024 6:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>     "Armistice" by Harry Turtledove is the 3rd volume of his Hot War 
> Trilogy.
>      The whole thing is based on the Harry Truman of the story
> deciding to atomic bomb the Chinese city/transportation hub
> supplying North Korea.
>      This causes the 3rd World War.  Russia bombs US and International 
> cities. Goodbye Seattle, the Golden Gate Bridge,
> a portion of Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York City.
> So long Paris and a few other great cities.  So of course
> the USA bombs Russia right back and Moscow is a thing of the
> past but that was in the first two volumes, "Bombs Away" and
>   "Fallout".  Truman though has lost his wife and daughter in
> DC along with the Congress and a lot of the rest of the
> government.   Harry T. gets even with Stalin eventually with
> an H-bomb.
> 
>      I may have to re-read this but Turtledove is usually a
> great read and holds up to continued examination.  The books
> cover the defeat of the Japanese, the Chinese Communist
> revolution and does so via the experiences not of Truman
> but of the soldiers fighting on both sides, the wives they
> left behind and some folks merely looking for a place to be
> and be left alone.
>        The Armistice is negotiated between Truman and Molotov.
>        But this really shows the horrors of war and of  being
> a civilian in a warlike nation.
>      I would read it and its earlier volumes again.
>      bliss
> 
Honestly, it sounds like a rehash of several other of Turtledove's AH 
series.  Same story, different time period.  I stopped buying them a 
series or two ago.

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