Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444786458
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Book Synopsis American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold by : Harry Turtledove
Download or read book American Empire: The Centre Cannot Hold written by Harry Turtledove and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turtledove's alternate history of America in the last 150 years continues . . . The second book in the American Empire sequence takes the violent American civil war (which has become a world war) to 1924: a time of rebuilding. Life is slowly returning to normal in the devastated cities of Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to power. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong as the stock market soars and America enjoys a prosperity unknown for half a century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history a new generation faces new uncertainties,. In a world of occupiers and the occupied, of simmering hatreds, shattered lives and pent-up violence, the centre can no longer hold. And for a powerful nation, the ultimate shock will come when a fleet of foreign aircraft rains death and destruction on one of the great cities of the United States.