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  • "Armistice" by Harry Turtledove

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 23 18:38:18 2024
    "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

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Bobbie Sellers on Thu Oct 24 08:18:18 2024
    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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    dirty old man.

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