( Log Out /  Have you seen The Man in the High Castle? Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry A handful of examples of secret female soldiers in the civil war are well documented on both sides of the conflict, so she does not seem entirely out of place for the time period. The Guns of the South (1992) was the first, or anyway the first I encountered, of the new kind of time-travel alternate histories, the kind where a group of people from the future, with their techn… Harry Turtledove. I found this rather disappointing and I’m sure the book would have benefited with a point of view of a black slave. What if the South had been armed with modern repeating rifles? General Lee is elected Confederate President in 1867, he had witnessed the ferocity with which black soldiers fought with in the Union army and so had many other Southerners which made him and others find new found respect to their “inferiors” and fear a possible slave revolt. At Vorkuta, her lot improves when she starts work as a nurse trainee at the camp hospital under the supervision of a sympathetic woman doctor who tries to protect her. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. The Confederate States do indeed continue to allow slavery, but the realities of world opinion and economics quickly influence new national policy. GENERAL FICTION, by RELEASE DATE: June 2, 2020. Cilka also begins to feel the stirrings of romantic love for Alexandr, a fellow prisoner. Sadly the book does not have any major black characters, although this does not mean that blacks are excluded from the story but are merely in the background. Readers willing to wink at the time travel will find a well-researched and well-written account of a nation that didn't happen. ‧ Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. The gossips are agog: “In Mallard, nobody married dark....Marrying a dark man and dragging his blueblack child all over town was one step too far.” Desiree's decision seals Jude’s misery in this “colorstruck” place and propels a new generation of flight: Jude escapes on a track scholarship to UCLA. As in Tattooist, the writing itself is workmanlike at best and often overwrought. © Copyright 2020 Kirkus Media LLC. Great review! Categories: The Confederates win the Civil War with aid from South African time travelers in this unconvincing ``what-if'' tale. Southern victory was achieved by the means of 21st century time travelers (South-African neo-Nazis… She is a former prostitute turned soldier in the Confederate forces who had to conceal her identity to fight alongside the men. These two characters present the reader with two different viewpoints, the more historically interesting events surrounding Lee and what Confederate victory meant for ordinary people through the eyes of Nate Caudell. HISTORICAL FICTION, by This is not true of some of the more dislikeable and outright racist characters such as General Forrest (future KKK founder) and many of the time travelling Nazis whose savage treatment of black slaves is considered grotesque even by slavery supporting Southerners. Mass Market Paperbound - 576 pages - 978-0-345-38468-3, Paperback - 517 pages - 978-0-345-41366-6, THE FIRST HEROES: New Tales of the Bronze Age, Opening Atlantis: A Novel of Alternate History, In High Places: Crosstime Traffic—Book Three, The Gladiator: Crosstime Traffic—Book Four, Into the Darkness: A Novel of the World at War, AMERICAN EMPIRE: The Victorious Opposition, The Disunited States of America: Crosstime Traffic—Book Four, The House of Daniel: A Novel of Miracles, Magic, and Minor League Ball, GUNPOWDER EMPIRE: Crosstime Traffic—Book One. Book Review: Guns of the South (1992 by Harry Turtledove) Critic's Corner Reviews & Photography Science Fiction Books June 9, 2014 June 9, 2014 1 Minute If you like historical fiction with a dash of science fiction yet mostly a history of what the South would be like without losing to the Union, then this book is for you. Naturally the book covers a delicate subject and any discussion about a possible Confederate victory in the civil war is incomplete without wondering what the status of the slaves would be. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Guns of the South: a Novel of the Civil War Time travelers bring Ak-47's back to the Civil War to try to create a permanent racial division. ‧ The love interest of Nate Caudell, Mollie Bean, is an interesting character. Awesome stuff! HISTORICAL FICTION, by In the second half, Jude spars with her cousin Kennedy, Stella's daughter, a spoiled actress. RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 2019. Categories: Acting on uncanny tips from the Afrikaners, Lee reverses the Battle of the Wilderness and within months the rebels seize Washington, D.C. A new nation is born, just the way the Boers hoped it would be. It really is. Heather Morris ‧ Naturally the book covers a delicate subject and any discussion about a possible Confederate victory in the civil war is incomplete without wondering what the status of the slaves would be. Categories: We’re glad you found a book that interests you! Trouble signing in? Though believing she is cursed, Cilka shows great courage and fortitude throughout: Indeed, her ability to endure trauma—as well her heroism in ministering to the sick and wounded—almost defies credulity. The scene in which Stella adopts her White persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. History and science fiction merge in this latest from Turtledove (A Different Flesh, 1988; Agent of Byzantium, 1987 )—something that the publisher calls ``speculative fiction.'' Guns of the South is definitely one of the more interesting books I have read on the American Civil War and possibly the best alternate history novel I have read in some time, maybe on par with Robert Harris’ best seller Fatherland. Just as the Confederate cause seems doomed, deliverance arrives in the form of 20th-century weapons. | It’s free and takes less than 10 seconds! But they have not reckoned on southern orneriness. Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number). Desiree, the “fidgety twin,” and Stella, “a smart, careful girl,” make their break from stultifying rural Mallard, Louisiana, becoming 16-year-old runaways in 1954 New Orleans. ( Log Out /  The talented Bennett fuels her fiction with secrets—first in her lauded debut, The Mothers (2016), and now in the assured and magnetic story of the Vignes sisters, light-skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. Kin “[find] each other’s lives inscrutable” in this rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed. The history portrayed in this book begins to diverge from the one we know when a group of strangers (whom the reader will recognize as modern Afrikaaners) supplies the South with 100,000 AK-47 rifles, and adequate ammunition. Tending bar as a side job in Beverly Hills, she catches a glimpse of her mother’s doppelgänger. Bennett keeps all these plot threads thrumming and her social commentary crisp. Brit Bennett The novel is ostensibly based on a true story, but a central element in the book—Cilka’s sexual relationship with the SS officers—has been challenged by the Auschwitz Memorial Research Center and by the real Cilka’s stepson, who says it is false. In Guns of the South the unthinkable happens and the Confederacy wins the civil war with slave owners retaining their “right” of owning slaves. A German/Japanese occupied USA sounds terrifying (and interesting)! This is now on my (really long) list of titles I’m going to need to read. Bennett's novel plays with its characters' nagging feelings of being incomplete—for the twins without each other; for Jude’s boyfriend, Reese, who is trans and seeks surgery; for their friend Barry, who performs in drag as Bianca. Harry Turtledove's "The Guns of the South" begins near the end of the American Civil War, with the Confederacy facing near-certain defeat. Though gripping, even moving at times, the novel doesn’t do justice to the solemn history from which it is drawn. GENERAL FICTION South African white supremacists with access to a time-travel machine conclude that their own loathsome policies would find sympathy in an independent Dixie and, accordingly, begin historic, large trans-shipments of the sturdy, reliable AK-47 rifle from 21st-century Johannesburg to 19th-century Virginia. Not to mention the fact that he had access to a history book from the 20th century, which covered the events of our timeline in which the South lost and showed how slavery was considered something only a criminal state would employ in the modern age. The South Africans, who have dug into their own company town in North Carolina, are outraged by the perversion of what should have been an eden of apartheid, and they bring new weapons to bear on their former darlings. Stella, ensconced in White society, is shedding her fur coat. I easily recommend the book to any fan of history or the civil war who has probably wondered, what if the South had won?

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