I love to read. I probably read a couple of dozen books a year. How do I have time to do that? Well, I hardly ever watch TV. In fact, I think TV sucks! But I digress.
I was reminded of this thread when I chanced upon some of Harry Turtledove's alternate history novels at a used book sale last week. I had read
Blood and Iron a few years ago when my brother left it in my car during a visit. Nothing quite like jumping in in the middle of a series.
Now I have
How Few Remain and
American Front so I can restart from the beginning.
One of the consequences of the Northern victory is that every post in this thread refers to the conflict as the Civil War. A lot of Southerners will still call it "The War Between the States." Regardless of slavery and other moral or economic issues most Southerners simply did not view the United States of America as "one nation, indivisible." They thought they could just take their marbles and leave. Abe Lincoln said "No, you can't." Turtledove's series starts with Lincoln not being able to hold the country together.
Interesting.
Lindy