Last Orders
Written by Harry Turtledove
Narrated by Todd McLaren
3/5
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About this audiobook
Hitler's Plan A was to win in a hurry, striking hard and deep into France. There was no Plan B. Now the war grinds on, and countries have been forced into strange alliances. For the United States, the only enemy is Japan. Then Hitler becomes desperate and declares war on the United States. But is it too late? His own people are rising up in revolt. The German military may have to put down the violence-even perhaps bomb its own cities.
In this epic drama, real men and women are shaped by the carnage, and their individual acts in turn shape history. Drawing on the gritty, personal reality of war and on a cast of unforgettable characters, Turtledove has written an alternate history that intrigues, fascinates, and astounds.
Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer who Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove’s works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the standalone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.
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Reviews for Last Orders
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Harry Turtledove's "The War That Came Early" series has suffered from two major flaws: a lack of plot development and a limited and repetitive perspective on events. Over five books, the grinding nature of a drawn-out stalemate has been viewed from the perspective of a dozen or so characters. Because most of them are ordinary soldiers, what the reader has gotten was a lot of the day-to-day monotony of combat, with the experiences basically interchangeable.
As this is the final volume of the series Turtledove has been forced to address the first of these flaws. With a need to wrap up events he gives developments an impetus that they had been lacking until now. Things actually start to happen, even if it does so in a rather boring and predictable manner. The improvement, though, might have been even more noticeable had he been able to draw upon a wider range of perspectives, but the fact that he still draws from the same limited range of experiences means that the problem with repetition still holds, as larger events are only told through gossip and radio reports. It's all a far cry of what Turtledove accomplished with his previous series (such as his Timeline-191 decalogy), and left me with the impression that he is just going through the motions at this point. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The ends of the chapters are truncated. Very irritating. The story itself is interesting though.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Mr Turtledove writes the same book over and over. Predictable plots, takes two books worth of story and stretches it to a repeating, boring 6 books. Dont waste your time or allow yourself to be abused by this great hack.