The Great War: American Front
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| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Great War |
| Genre | Alternate history novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey |
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May 12, 1998 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 503 |
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| OCLC | 38081533 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.U76 G74 1998 |
| Preceded by | How Few Remain |
| Followed by | The Great War: Walk in Hell |
The Great War: American Front is the first alternate history novel in the Great War trilogy by Harry Turtledove. It is the second part of Turtledove's Southern Victory Series of novels. It takes the Southern Victory Series from 1914 to 1915.
After a prologue with Robert E. Lee smashing the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania due to him not losing Special Order 191, in October 1862, and the subsequent Anglo-French diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America. The embittered Abraham Lincoln tells British Ambassador Richard Lyons that the United States would eventually get even by finding a European ally to match both the United Kingdom and France; the Ambassador laughs scornfully, but Lincoln's prophecy comes true when by 1914 the US would be the firm ally of Imperial Germany.
In the larger Southern Victory Series context, the CSA and the USA remained hostile powers toward one another during the decades between 1862 and 1914. A second military defeat of the USA by the CSA in the Second Mexican War (1881-1882) greatly intensified the resentment and hatred of the Confederate States in the USA, where Remembrance Day becomes a grim official holiday marking the 1882 surrender and keeping alive the dream of revenge for the two humiliations inflicted by the South.
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