Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Armistice" by Harry Turtledove Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:18:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:18:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c2c4d15898459caabfa9273f9cc1772f"; logging-data="2822429"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19kKw7RpTaPKDpNZFkJ5x5c" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:QMxVwofMKc79m3lgPsszwtJ27GU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2787 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. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.