• American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

  • By: Harry Turtledove
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 23 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (420 ratings)

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American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

By: Harry Turtledove
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Following Blood and Iron and The Center Cannot Hold, The Victorious Opposition triumphantly concludes Harry Turtledove's American Empire trilogy - a masterful saga of alternate history. War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
©2003 Harry Turtledove (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC

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"... almost impossible to praise too highly." ( Booklist, starred review)

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Excellent series. where is continuation

Love this series. when will continuation be available on audible? please publish soon. books are ready for record.

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important backstory, but meh

important to continue following all of the characters, but it's just a giant book of filler to make the universe feel more lived in.

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Next

It was great I'm up to the seventh installment please audible hurry up with the final four already.

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calm before the storm

good conculsion to American empire trilogy, Turtledove does a good job weaving the story and tying loose ends and creating new perspectives for the next set of books. However Turtledove does love to use a few phrases constantly to describe things like coffee or characters expressions. if that doesn't bother you then this is a breeze, its alot of characters to keep track of but the narrator does a great job of keeping the voices consistent, even if he does t space out the character perspective shifts enough. Overall, this is a fantastic end and set up for the next trilogy.

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Good ending to the trilogy

Probably the best best of the 3 books in the american empire series. Sad to have to finish the remaining books with a different narrator.

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One of my favorite Series

Honestly it is quite impressive how the universe is fleshed out to be, while a mirror image of our own timeline in many ways, still a realistic estimation of what might have been. I loved that Harry argues regardless of who won the Great War, or who was in the White House, the Great Crash was inevitable.

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Good Troligy

I love where the story is heading to and love how they building up the hype for World War II in the story.

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loved it

love this series !!!!! are the parallels a little predictable yes, but each character arc is still very interesting to listen to Guidall is great , sad that he will not be doing the entire series but what can you do .....looking forward to the next one

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Gripping

Many well integrated threads. The reader cares about the people and their upcoming fates. Abruptly ends with an opening into a next phase.
(What is the next in the series?)

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So it begins.

What did you love best about American Empire?

The narration and the overall storyline.

What did you like best about this story?

The storyline itself, and the characters as well.

Have you listened to any of George Guidall’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have. Just as good as his other ones.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Get ready for a world war.

Any additional comments?

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