Re: [OT] Tutrtledove's Alternate History of the UC Civil War

Remember, this is only my own humble opinion...no flamewars
please...thankyou.

I did read "Guns of the South", and  "How few remain".

Two things I was not comfortable with...His treatment of a
post-civil-war
Lincoln, and how the USA seems to keep filling it's armys with
ding-dongs, while
the south fills theirs with Pattons...

He makes Lincoln out to be a communist (modern term...they used
"socialist" back
then.).  My friend tells my that Lincoln once made a speach supporting
the
working man. (or something like that -- I have never studied Lincoln's
speachs...)  So Mr Turtledove just changes a few words, and presto!
Lincoln is a
socialist...  I told my friend that you could make Hitler into a saint
by
changing a few words of his speachs...

As to the USA's armies...the way he has them losing, the US should
disappear
sometime around 1940 or so...  It just seems to me (read: In My Humble
Opinion)
that from reading real history, the US gains something from each war,
mostly how
to better fight the next one.  In his books, the US is losing, and
losing, and
losing...
They should be getting better each time.  (ie: more dangerous, harder to
beat,
or at least not lose so bad as the last time.)

I must admit I couldn't finish the one book, once I read about Lincoln's
socializm...

One of my hobbies is "real history".  (ie: the more you understand about
real
history, the better you can construct imaginary ones...)

Remember, this is only my own humble opinion...no flamewars
please...thankyou.

Donald Hosford