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West And East (2010)

by Harry Turtledove(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

034549184X (ISBN13: 9780345491848)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Del Rey

series

The War That Came Early

review 1: A sequel to HITLER'S WAR, continues the alternate history in which WW2 began a year early. Turtledove is a good writer but the book doesn't end, at least one major event happens off-stage. I'd like to see a few pages in the corridors of power among major players like Hitler, Stalin, etc. There are two additional 400+ page novels available and I don't know if they end the story. When I start worrying more about a cat then the people, I began to wonder if the series couldn't have been trimmed by several hundred pages.
review 2: While Harry Turtledove does posit an interesting future based on the central premise of World War 2 happening years earlier than it might have, the fact of the matter is that this is clearly the beginning of a series. Many of the story... morelines are not truly resolved, and while the portraits of life are interesting enough, it neither concludes the full story nor is it truly compelling enough for me to want to hear how the stories end. An interesting idea, but with an execution which doesn't live up to that promise. less

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