Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart; The Guns of the South; How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood & Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca.

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    • The Guns of the South

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 453
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 420
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 421

    January 1864: General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • Loved the book but...

    • By Tami A. on 10-28-16

    Regular price: $41.99

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    • Worldwar: In the Balance

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 26 hrs and 33 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4 out of 5 stars 589
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 479
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 475

    War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Awesome

    • By W on 03-29-10

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • Worldwar

    • Upsetting the Balance
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 20 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 319
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 263
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 266

    Communist China, Japan, Nazi Germany, the United States: they began World War II as mortal enemies....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Liked it!

    • By Steven on 04-06-15

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • Armistice

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Henry Strozier
    • Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 148
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 136
    • Story
      4 out of 5 stars 135

    Set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet....

    • 3 out of 5 stars

    • Anticlimactic end to what should have been two books

    • By Ryan on 07-28-17

    Regular price: $34.99

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    • Walk in Hell

    • The Great War, Book 2
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 209
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 188
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 188

    The incredible second book of best-selling author Harry Turtledove’s alternate history tetralogy of World War I, The Great War....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • well-written, interesting story line

    • By Thomas on 05-17-18

    Regular price: $41.99

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    • How Few Remain

    • A Novel of the Second War Between the States
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 393
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 353
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 354

    Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, crafts arresting novels based on hypothetical scenarios and featuring iconic figures from the past.....

    • 4 out of 5 stars

    • A Civil War Alternate History Classic! Fantastic!

    • By Michael on 10-06-12

    Regular price: $31.49

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    • American Front

    • The Great War, Book 1
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 24 hrs and 21 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 298
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 252
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 251

    In American Front Harry Turtledove envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Incredible Story, Pretty Good Narrator

    • By Amazon Customer on 03-25-15

    Regular price: $45.49

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    • Aftershocks

    • Colonization, Book 3
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 28 hrs and 15 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 207
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 173
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 171

    Set in the same universe as the Worldwar series, the Colonization series brings us to Earth in the 1960s, where four superpowers rule....

    • 3 out of 5 stars

    • Nothing much happens (entire series)

    • By Fernando on 12-24-12

    Regular price: $41.99

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    • Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 388
    • Performance
      4.5 out of 5 stars 316
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 316

    No one could stop them - not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Easy to tell if you will like this book

    • By James on 01-22-11

    Regular price: $38.49

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    • Return Engagement

    • Settling Accounts, Book 1
    • By: Harry Turtledove
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 25 hrs and 33 mins
    • Unabridged
    • Overall
      4.5 out of 5 stars 188
    • Performance
      4 out of 5 stars 175
    • Story
      4.5 out of 5 stars 176

    In 1914, they called it The Great War, and few could imagine anything worse. For nearly three decades, a peace forged in blood and fatigue has held sway in North America....

    • 5 out of 5 stars

    • Great book bad narrator

    • By brian on 06-25-16

    Regular price: $41.99

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