Settling Accounts: In at the Death
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| In at the Death | |
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Settling Accounts |
| Genre(s) | Alternate history novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Publication date | July 27, 2007 |
| Pages | 609 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0345-49247-1 |
| Preceded by | Settling Accounts: The Grapple |
Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the last novel of the Settling Accounts tetralogy that presents an alternative history of World War II 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 Timeline-191. This alternative history began with the Confederate States of America winning the American Civil War in 1862, followed by a war between the United States and Confederate States of America in the 1880s which is also won by the South. Thirty years later the North, allied with the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, wins an alternative World War I over the South and its allies, the British Empire, France, Tsarist Russia. As in our actual timeline, another World War follows two decades later, and the North and its primary ally, the German Empire, wins World War II against the Confederates and their primary allies, Britain and France.
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In this final chapter of Turtledove's alternate-history saga, we witness the end of this alternate World War II. Turtledove chooses to have the United States campaigns reflect those that would have happened in the actual Civil War. U.S. armies drive through the center of the Confederacy in a "March to the Sea" while, at the same time, a second U.S. force drives into Virginia to capture Richmond. In a surprise twist, the Confederacy (with some quiet help from Great Britain) manages to produce an atomic bomb. The bomb is smuggled via truck into the de facto U.S. capital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and detonated; however, the bomb is detonated only on the city's outskirts and does not damage any government buildings, and it is too late in the war to make much of a difference. In retaliation, the United States detonate nuclear bombs at Newport News, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. The Newport News bomb narrowly misses Confederate President Jake Featherston. Texas declares independence from the Confederacy and signs a separate peace with the United States. Jake Featherston attempts to escape to the Deep South but his plane is shot down. He survives the crash landing, only to be shot and killed by a black guerrilla, Cassius. The fourth and presumably final war between the United States and Confederate States ends officially on July 14, 1944, at 6:01 p.m after an unconditional surrender is signed between General Irving Morrell and the Confederate President, Don Patridge.
The United States begin full occupation of the former Confederate States and Canada (though Texas apparently remains independent). The future of this alternate universe is left very much in doubt as for the first time in almost a century America is made one nation.
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