Departures, Turtledove Harry

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Bombs Away: The Hot War
ISBN: 0553390724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553390728
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 6130.00 T
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Описание: In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed. Now, this masterly storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot?

Bombs Away begins with President Harry Truman in desperate consultation with General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. MacArthur recognizes a stark reality: The U.S. military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis--while China and the USSR have built up their forces. The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. In actual history, Truman rejected his general's advice; here, he does not. The miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia's reaction.

Almost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. allies in Europe and Great Britain. As the shock waves settle, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. Will they attack each other directly with nuclear weapons? What countries will be caught in between?

The fateful global drama plays out through the experiences of ordinary people--from a British barmaid to a Ukrainian war veteran to a desperate American soldier alone behind enemy lines in Korea. For them, as well as Truman, Mao, and Stalin, the whole world has become a battleground. Strategic strikes lead to massive movements of ground troops. Cities are destroyed, economies ravaged. And on a planet under siege, the sounds and sights of nuclear bombs become a grim harbinger of a new reality: the struggle to survive man's greatest madness.

Praise for Bombs Away

"A fascinating and compelling story of real people caught in forces beyond their control . . . Harry Turtledove is] the unrivaled monarch of alternate history."--Analog

"Turtledove is an undisputed centerpiece of the alternate-history genre, and now, to his already grand display, he's adding the ambitious tale of a WWIII that could have happened."--Booklist

"This is Turtledove at his best."--SFRevu

"Alternate-world warrior extraordinaire Turtledove delivers the opening barrage of a new speculative conflict."--Kirkus Reviews

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Shaka II
ISBN: 1612422586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612422589
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 10180.00 T
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Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Misplaced Legion
ISBN: 0345330676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345330673
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5510.00 T
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Описание: As their armies watch, Marcus, a Roman centurion, and Viridovix, a Celt, begin a duel to the death until a strange spell transports them and a group of Roman legionaires to the mysterious world of Videssos, a land ruled by magic and dark sorcery.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: A Different Flesh
ISBN: 1504052331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504052337
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 20220.00 T
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This novel by the New York Times-bestselling "master of alternate history" explores an America reshaped by a twist in prehistoric evolution (Publishers Weekly).

What if mankind's "missing link," the apelike Homo erectus, had survived to dominate a North American continent where woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers still prowled, while the more advanced Homo sapiens built their civilizations elsewhere? Now imagine that the Europeans arriving in the New World had chanced on these primitive creatures and seized the opportunity to establish a hierarchy in which the sapiens were masters and the "sims" were their slaves.

This is the premise that drives the incomparable Harry Turtledove's A Different Flesh. The acclaimed Hugo Award winner creates an alternate America that spans three hundred years of invented history. From the Jamestown colonists' desperate hunt for a human infant kidnapped by a local sim tribe, to a late-eighteenth-century contest between a newfangled steam-engine train and the popular hairy-elephant-pulled model, to the sim-rights activists' daring 1988 rescue of an unfortunate biped named Matt who's being used for animal experimentation, Turtledove turns our world inside out in a remarkable science fiction masterwork that explores what it truly means to be human.

" A] striking premise . . . Involving and intricate." --Publishers Weekly

"Turtledove's gift for historical speculation is always provocative." --Library Journal

Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the "master of alternate history," and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Swords of the Legion
ISBN: 0345330706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345330703
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Описание: In Videssos the city, tribune Marcus Scaurus was bored. The legion that had been magically transported to this strange world was far away. But the Emperor's niece Alypia was near--and willing.

When their secret trysts were betrayed, Emperor Thorisin Gavras was forced to condemn Marcus as a traitor--but with a promise of freedom and Alypia, if he could reclaim a rebel province from a fanatic usurper, with no military aid. With only centurion Gaius Philippus, Marcus set out to try the seemingly impossible task.

But the fates conspired against them, driving them further westward, into the innermost sanctum of Videssos' great enemy Yezd--and toward the torture chambers of the evil, deathless wizard-prince Avshar.

But behind them, without orders, the men of the legion were on the march

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: On the train
ISBN: 1612420761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612420769
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Цена: 11950.00 T
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Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Fort Pillow
ISBN: 0312354770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312354770
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 14090.00 T
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In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused the Confederates of massacring the black troops after the fort fell and fighting should have ceased. The Fort Pillow Massacre became a Union rallying cry and cemented resolve to see the war through to its conclusion.

Harry Turtledove has written a dramatic recreation of an astounding battle, telling a bloody story of courage and hope, freedom and hatred. With brilliant characterization of all the main figures, this is a novel that reminds us that Fort Pillow was more than a battle---it was a clash of ideas between men fighting to define what being an American ought to mean.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Emperor for the Legion
ISBN: 0345330684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345330680
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4900.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Tribune Marcus Scaurus, leader of a Roman legion that was mysteriously transported to a strange world of magic, decides to challenge Ortaias Sphrantzes, who has assumed the throne of Videssos, after using sorcery to murder the Emperor.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Krispos Rising
ISBN: 0345361180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345361189
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4290.00 T
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Описание: Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empires health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep.

Driven by crushing taxes from the farm where his family had lived -- and died -- Krispos had come to the. city seeking what fortune a good mind and a strong back could earn. He had a single goldpiece to his name -- the gift, years past, of a nomad chieftain to a ragged peasant boy. Now, though the night was raw and the inn was warm, he was loath to spend that coin, for the barbarian had claimed it carried magic.

Keep his lucky goldpiece or trade it for a warm, dry bed? Krispos tucked the coin away and stepped back into the wet streets -- all unaware that so simple a choice would lead to a world of peril and possibility...

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Darkness Descending
ISBN: 0812575105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812575101
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 4900.00 T
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Описание: The country of Algarve is successful in its blitzkrieg tactics, but becomes bogged down in the desolate winter of Unkerlant, its main enemy. Algarve's king decides to undertake blood magic, which amounts to genocide, in order to break the deadlock.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Alpha and Omega
ISBN: 0399181490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780399181498
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 17770.00 T
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Описание: New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove reveals a new side of his potent imagination in a gripping speculative novel about the End of Days--and a discovery in the Middle East that turns the world upside down.

What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz, a secular archaeologist from Los Angeles, expects during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America, a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, and events conspire to place a team of archaeologists in the tunnels deep under the Temple Mount. It is there that Eric is witness to a discovery of such monumental proportions that nothing will ever be the same again.

Harry Turtledove is the master at portraying ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, and what is more extraordinary than the incontrovertible proof that there truly is a higher force controlling human destiny? But as to what that force desires . . . well, that is the question.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Videssos Besieged
ISBN: 0345402995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345402998
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4290.00 T
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Описание: Emperor Maniakes once again unleashes his troops against an enemy capital rul by a hated tyrant, only to face the ultimate disaster as his evil nemesis launches his irresistible forces against the very gates of Videssos itself.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Stolen Throne
ISBN: 0345380479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345380470
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 3670.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Receiving a prophetic warning just before war is declared between two rival empires, young Abivard watches his father and king fall in battle and a greedy bureaucrat capture the crown.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Advance and Retreat
ISBN: 0743488202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780743488204
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Цена: 6120.00 T
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Описание: In a gripping novel of alternate history, King Avram, determined to restore unity to the kingdom of Detina and free the blond serfs, finds the civil war between the North and South coming to a head when the use of sorcery becomes extremely unpredictable, forcing the South to battle the North.

Автор: Turtledove Harry
Название: Down to Earth
ISBN: 0345430239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345430236
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 5510.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: Arriving in the midst of World War II, aliens have conquered half the Earth and are threatening to exerminate all life on the planet if they don't get their way.