SETTLING ACCOUNTS: IN AT THE DEATH

'''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 which began with the Confederate States of America winning the American Civil War in 1862, a series sometimes referred to as Timeline-191: a war between the United States and Confederate States in the 1880s is won by the South; the North, allied with the German Empire, wins an alternative World War I against the Confederates, 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 England) 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 only detonated 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 U.S. nukes Newport News, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina. The Newport News bomb narrowly misses Confederate President Jake Featherston. Texas declares independence from the Confederacy and sides with the U.S. 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. The fourth and presumably final war between the United States and Confederate States ends officially on July 14, 1944 at 6:01pm.
The United States begins full occupation of the former Confederate States and Canada. 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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