Greg M. (greg942) reviewed on 4/14/2009 + 50 more book reviews

Interesting. Worth reading. The author bases the story on some "well known truths" that simply are not so. What it is like to serve in Iraq was particularly off base and inaccurate. Not that it makes for a bad story. It is simply an alternate history that is very recent history. Imagine a Turtledove story about World War Two published in 1943. The bad guys were as bad as bad guys are in the real world. The good guys were as good but neither were so far over the top as to be unrealistic. Don't read it if you want a book that agrees lockstep with a particular political belief nor if you want a neat and happy ending.

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