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Series by Harry Turtledove

Southern Victory

Author	Harry Turtledove
Country	United States
Linguistic communication	English
Genre	Alternate history
Published	1997–2007 (1997–2007)

The Southern Victory series or Timeline-191 ^[1] is a series of 11 alternate history novels past author Harry Turtledove,^{[two] [iii]} beginning with How Few Remain (1997) and published over a decade. The menses addressed in the series begins during the Civil War and spans nine decades, upward to the mid-1940s. In the series, the Confederate States defeats the United states of America in 1862, therefore making good its attempt at secession and condign an independent nation. Subsequent books are congenital on imagining events based on this alternate timeline.^[4]

The secondary name is derived from General Robert E. Lee's Special Lodge 191, which detailed the C.S. Regular army of Northern Virginia'south invasion of the Wedlock through the border country Maryland in September 1862. Turtledove creates a divergence at September 10, 1862, when three Union soldiers do not find a re-create of Special Club 191, every bit they in fact did historically. Historians believe their find helped General George B. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac fix for his confrontation with Lee, and contributed to the Marriage's eventual victory at the Battle of Antietam.^[5]

List of books in the serial [edit]

The Southern Victory series consists of eleven books, published between 1997 and 2007. The first book in the series is How Few Remain, and the remaining x books are part of iii sub-series within the overall series. These sub-series are The Dandy War (1998–2000) trilogy, The American Empire trilogy (2001–2003), and The Settling Accounts (2003–2007) tetralogy.

• How Few Remain (1997)
• The "Great War" Trilogy^[6]
  • American Front (1998)
  • Walk in Hell (1999)
  • Breakthroughs (2000)
• The "American Empire" Trilogy^[7]
  • Blood and Iron (2001)
  • The Centre Cannot Agree (2002)
  • The Victorious Opposition (2003)
• The "Settling Accounts" Tetralogy^[viii]
  • Return Engagement (2004)
  • Drive to the East (2005)
  • The Grapple (2006)
  • In at the Death (2007)

Fictional chronology [edit]

After recovering the lost copy of Special Guild 191 earlier it falls into Wedlock easily, Confederate forces grab George B. McClellan'southward Union Ground forces by surprise and destroy information technology on the banks of the Susquehanna River in 1862. Occupying Philadelphia, the Confederacy gains diplomatic recognition from the United Kingdom and French republic, who mediate a peace deal past which the Confederacy achieves independence. President Abraham Lincoln considers his failure to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, along with the possibility of the U.S. finding its own European allies in the time to come.

The United States cannot beget Alaska, but proceeds with its war against the natives of the Smashing Plains. Meanwhile, the Confederacy admits Kentucky, Sequoyah, and Cuba as new states, and negotiates the buy of Sonora and Chihuahua from Mexico in 1881. Republican President James Yard. Blaine uses this as a casus belli to declare a renewed war, drawing Great britain and French republic back into the conflict. The Union, despite its advantage in manpower and resource, lacks competent leadership, and struggles to have Confederate territory while also facing a revolt in Utah. The Louisville entrada devolves into trench warfare, while Britain and France beat out U.S. ports and New Brunswick annexes northern Maine. The Union capitulates in early on 1882, recognizing the Confederate acquisitions, while the Republicans are shortly voted out of government.

In the wake of the civil war's loss, Lincoln takes up socialism and leads his loyal faction of the Republican Party into merging with the nascent Socialist Party of America, changing Us politics as this becomes the second major party, supplanting the Republicans afterward. Over the residual of the decade, manumission of slaves is nominally implemented throughout the Confederacy -- easing relations with United kingdom and France, which had both abolished slavery much earlier -- although the black population continues to live in apartheid-like conditions. The U.South. secures an alliance with the new German Empire among a national atmosphere of revanchism.

Great War [edit]

Map of the world with the participants in The Great War in the Southern Victory history. The "Entente" (sometimes referred to as "The Allies") are depicted in dark-green, the "Fundamental Powers" in orange, and neutral countries in grey.

Upon the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, France, and Russian federation get to war with Germany and Republic of austria-Hungary. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson order the U.S. and C.South. militaries to mobilize following their corresponding allies, and fighting shortly breaks out. Industrialized warfare and the absence of European intervention favors the Spousal relationship side, and much of the Confederate officer corps is made upward of heirs of smashing 19th-century generals with no item talent of their own. An invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania overruns Washington, D.C. but is unable to take Baltimore, while the Matrimony launches attacks on Sonora and Canada, along with the capture of the British Sandwich Islands. As winter falls, a stalemate settles in across trench lines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Manitoba, Southern Ontario, and the St. Lawrence River. The U.S. faces another rebellion in Utah and the C.S. faces a black socialist defection, which takes a yr to subdue.

In 1916 a new technical advance is introduced: the "barrel". George Armstrong Custer develops a doctrine for armored cavalry, but his tactics are not adopted and the first offensive is a failure. The U.S. successfully advances in Canada and defends Hawaii in a big naval appointment; the C.S. hopes that attrition and war weariness might knock the U.S. out, but pro-state of war President Roosevelt wins reelection, and the Confederacy is forced to brainstorm recruiting black troops with a promise of civil rights after the war. The following year sees breakthroughs in Tennessee and Quebec using Custer'southward massed barrel tactics, while a simultaneous advance in Virginia recaptures a devastated Washington. With Union troops approaching its capital letter, the C.Southward. sues for peace, with it suffering the same fate as Germany In our timeline. Territorial changes include Kentucky and the western half of Texas (Henceforth known equally Houston) being annexed into the U.Due south. as states. The C.S. States of Arkansas, Sonora, and Virginia lose territory to the U.South. states of Missouri, New Mexico, and Due west Virginia respectively, and Sequoyah is placed under occupation past U.Southward. forces. All of Canada (except Quebec, which is released as a U.S. ally) is annexed by the U.S. under occupation. is also annexed In Europe, army mutinies lead to France'due south leave from the war; Italy never enters it, while Russia is wracked by revolution. Brazil besides joins the Central Powers along with Chile and Paraguay against Argentine republic, and increasingly isolated, Britain capitulates every bit well, ending the war.

American Empire [edit]

Jubilant at having finally browbeaten the Confederates, the U.S. soon encounters strikes and labor unrest, fueling political gains by the Socialist Party. The Confederacy experiences hyperinflation and a growth in reactionary extremism -- ex-sergeant Jake Featherston achieves popularity via his tirades against the "stab in the back". He comes to lead the C.S. Freedom Party, reorganizing it around his own ambitions with a loyal paramilitary wing and a radio propaganda program. Still, Featherston loses several bids for office, and a Liberty Party assassination of the Confederate President drains much of his support until the crash of 1929. With the ranks of his political party swelled by popular unrest, Featherston finally becomes President in 1934, and sets about establishing control over the government, the police force, and the expanding regular army. He demands the return of old Amalgamated territory in forms of Kentucky, Sequoyah and Houston; after negotiating for plebiscites to exist held in those states, Kentucky and Houston vote for re-admittance whilst Sequoyah votes to remain part of the U.s..

Elsewhere in the world, the Great War results in independence for Quebec and Ireland, as well as other concessions by Britain; Canada falls under harsh U.S. dominion while Germany sets up puppet states in Kingdom of belgium, Poland, and Ukraine. Tensions seem to be rising between the two powers until the depression hits. The Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires remain intact but fragile; Nihon builds an empire in east Asia and carries on a brief war with the U.S. When France demands the return of Alsace-Lorraine and the new Kaiser refuses, Uk, France, Russia, and the Confederacy declare war on Frg. On June 22, 1941, Featherston launches his surprise invasion of the U.South.

Settling Accounts [edit]

World map showing participants in the "Second Great War". The Entente are depicted in brown, the C.S. in red, the Central Powers in blue, the Japanese Empire in yellowish, the Chinese Empire in green, and neutral countries in greyness.

Against Union expectations, Confederate forces under George Patton drive into Ohio nether embrace of massive bombing raids, cutting U.South. manufacture off from its raw materials, but the front soon stalls in that location and in Virginia. The U.South. Navy suffers reverses confronting the Royal Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy. However, despite U.Southward. President Al Smith getting killed during a Confederate a bombing raid on Philadelphia, the U.S. does non give up. In response, the Confederacy launches a major offensive aimed at Pittsburgh, where its army is surrounded and annihilated in urban fighting. Meanwhile, the Confederacy begins "population reductions" against its blackness population, using poisonous substance gas at camps in Louisiana and Texas, which are forced to evacuate as U.South. troops advance. Using blitzkrieg-like tactics, the U.Due south. Ground forces is also able to button through Kentucky and Tennessee toward Atlanta.

In Europe, the Germans lose Ukraine and the Left Banking concern of the Rhine, but defend Due east Prussia and Poland. United kingdom occupies Republic of ireland, simply its Norwegian entrada fails spectacularly. Backed by Austro-hungarian empire and Bulgaria, Federal republic of germany begins counter-offensives in 1942. With both Russian federation and Austria-Republic of hungary facing ethnic uprisings, the German language Regular army is able to win at Kiev and threaten Petrograd, as well as retake the Low Countries. Having won the race for a nuclear weapon, Germany destroys Saint petersburg with an atomic flop; as more belligerents acquire the technology, the list of cities targeted grows to include Philadelphia, Newport News, Charleston, Paris, Hamburg, London, Norwich, and Brighton. Russian federation, France, and Britain sue for peace.

With Texas seceding, Patton surrendering in Alabama, and Featherston killed by a black guerrilla while trying to escape, the Confederacy surrenders unconditionally. U.S. forces hold trials for crimes against humanity and take extreme measures against the remaining bands of guerrillas, while mostly aided by the scattered remaining black population. In 1945, new President Thomas E. Dewey pledges to reintegrate the southern states into the Union and to continue the alliance with Federal republic of germany, while suppressing the development of nuclear weapons by their enemies French republic, Japan, and Russian federation. Reviewer Lionel Ward notes^[9] that although the serial "ends in an apparent happy ending", "integrating the Confederate territories into the United States would exist an impossible mission" -- "an open-ended military occupation of a very big sullen population, which would inevitably outburst into rebellion sooner or afterwards(...) A far more reasonable policy, never even considered, would have been to revive the Confederate Whig Political party nether Usa auspices and make a pragmatic understanding with a rehabilitated Confederacy". Ward concludes:

The serial ends with the Us property by the tail not one tiger but ii [The Confederate territories and Canada, occupied since 1917], plus a big aggressive mutiny [The Mormons in Utah]. [...] In this history, the mail service-1945 United States has aught like the dominant global position it had in the equivalent period of actual history. There are several rival powers with both the means and the motive to make trouble for the US and actively foment rebellion.

See as well [edit]

• 2nd Mexican State of war (Southern Victory)
• American Ceremonious War alternate histories
• The Guns of the South, another Harry Turtledove-written novel dealing with a C.S. victory

Reference [edit]

1. ^ ELHEFNAWY, NADER (one October 2007). "SETTLING ACCOUNTS: IN AT THE Expiry BY HARRY TURTLEDOVE". Strange Horizons . Retrieved x March 2020.
2. ^ RAGHUNATH, Riyukta (2017). "Alternative realities: Counterfactual historical fiction and possible worlds theory" (PDF). Sheffield Hallam University Research Annal (SHURA): fourteen. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
3. ^ "Uchronia: Great State of war Multi-Series (Southern Victory)". www.uchronia.net.
4. ^ Bribe, Roger L. (17 October 2006). The Amalgamated States of America: What Might Have Been. W. Due west. Norton & Company. ISBN0393078302 . Retrieved nine March 2020.
5. ^ Fleming, Ryan. "Ryan's Reviews - How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove". SEA LION PRESS. Ocean Lion PRESS. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
6. ^ "Fantastic Fiction.com: The Smashing State of war Series past Harry Turtledove". world wide web.fantasticfiction.com.
7. ^ "Fantastic Fiction.com: The American Empire Series past Harry Turtledove". www.fantasticfiction.com.
8. ^ "Fantastic Fiction.com: The Settling Accounts Serial by Harry Turtledove". www.fantasticfiction.com.
9. ^ Dr. Lionel P. Ward "Is Alternate History An Amusing Pastime, Or Does Information technology Have Something Serious To Tell Us?" in Barbara De Hartog (ed.) "Round Up of Recent Essays In and On Speculative Fiction"

External links [edit]

• The Great War folio, maintained past Steven H Silver.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Victory

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