Settling Accounts: In at the Death
Cover of Hodder & Stoughton 2007 paperback edition
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| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Settling Accounts |
| Genre | Alternate history |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
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2007 |
| Pages | 609 pp (hardcover) |
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| OCLC | 85766664 |
| 813/.54 22 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.U76 S477 2007 |
| Preceded by | Settling Accounts: The Grapple |
Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the last novel of the Settling Accounts tetralogy that presents an alternate history of World War II known as the Second Great War that was released July 27, 2007. It brings to a conclusion the multi-series compilation by author Harry Turtledove, a series sometimes referred to as Southern Victory Series. It takes the Southern Victory Series Earth from 1943 to 1945.
This alternative history began with the Confederate States of America winning the American Civil War, here called the War of Secession, in 1862, followed by the Second Mexican War between the United States and Confederate States of America in the 1880s which is also won by the South. 35 years later the North, allied with the Central Powers, wins an alternative World War I known as the Great War over the South and its allies, the Triple Entente. As in our actual timeline, another World War follows two decades later, and the North and its primary ally, Germany, wins the Second Great War against the Confederates and their allies, including primarily the United Kingdom and France.
The United States campaigns mirror Sherman's march to the sea as U.S. armies drive through the center of the Confederacy, while a second U.S. force drives into Virginia to capture Richmond. The horrific nature of war taints the main characters of the series, formerly wholly sympathetic, as virtually all of the beloved heroes of previous books resort to brutal war crime tactics nearly as horrifying as the other side's, but get away without punishment simply because their side is winning. The Confederacy (with some quiet help from the United Kingdom) manages to produce a fission bomb. The bomb is smuggled via truck into the de facto U.S. capital of Philadelphia, and detonated; however, the bomb explodes only on the city's outskirts west of the Schuylkill River. While causing horrific casualties, the bombing didn't damage any government buildings. In retaliation, the United States drops two nuclear bombs on Newport News, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. The Newport News bomb narrowly misses Confederate President Jake Featherston.
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