Originally posted by PANZERPIONIERE
The Earth is involved in WWII. So the Race decides to invade anyway. This is another great mix of historic and fictional characters. The biggest downside to this series is that there is something like 50 main and supporting characters. Each book covers roughly one year. And as mentioned Otto Skorzeny is a supporting character in the Germans efforts to battle the Race.
Much more science fiction than the World War I series, which is titled the Great War. That series is just about a war between North and South, but again it has historic and fictional characters.
Turtledove also wrote a series about a Civil War in a fantasy land with magic too. The twist here is that one side represents the North and the other the South. He did a similar WWII series with magic too. I didn't read these however.
The guy is a writing machine, but his history is really good. He makes very few errors. The biggest I found in Guns of the South, other than the Ak-47s of course, is that General Lee buys a novel to read on the train. I read a book about Lee and he didn't like fiction as he said it weakened the mind. But Turtledove gets the history down, and he clearly knows the characters. I read the book and it sounds like Robert E. Lee.
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