Advance and Retreat
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Author | Harry Turtledove |
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Cover artist | Tom Kidd |
Language | English |
Series | War Between the Provinces |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Baen Books |
Publication date | December 1, 2002 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Preceded by | Marching Through Peachtree |
Advance and Retreat is the third and final novel in The War Between the Provinces series, a fantasy version of the American Civil War by Harry Turtledove.[1]
Plot
After a long fought out civil war, the Southron forces of the Kingdom of Detina defeat the Northoners and serfdom is abolished throughout all the kingdom.
Reception
Publishers Weekly praised Turtledove's "entertaining and well-drawn characters," "grimly realistic depictions of battlefields and occupied towns", and "beautifully subtle treatment of racism", but noted that the parallels between the Detinan war and the American Civil War result in "a somewhat predictable story".[2]
Steven H Silver observed that these parallels were not exact, in that Turtledove introduced "changes in the events and characters in order to heighten the narrative tension", but considered that the novel could have been "more interesting" if Turtledove had made a greater exploration of how the presence of magic would alter military strategy and tactics.[3]
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The Tale of Krispos |
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Time of Troubles |
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Great War |
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American Empire |
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Settling Accounts |
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- Into the Darkness
- Darkness Descending
- Through the Darkness
- Rulers of the Darkness
- Jaws of Darkness
- Out of the Darkness
- Sentry Peak
- Marching Through Peachtree
- Advance and Retreat
- Gunpowder Empire
- Curious Notions
- In High Places
- The Disunited States of America
- The Gladiator
- The Valley-Westside War
- The Bastard King
- The Chernagor Pirates
- The Scepter's Return
- Beyond the Gap
- The Breath of God
- The Golden Shrine
- Hitler's War
- West and East
- The Big Switch
- Coup d'Etat
- Two Fronts
- Last Orders
- Eruption
- All Fall Down
- Supervolcano
- Maelstrom
- Bombs Away
- Fallout
- Armistice
and Three Men and...Stories
- "Visitor from the East"
- "Peace is Better"
- "Typecasting"
- "Something Fishy"
- "Always Something New"
- "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"
- "Three Men and a Vampire"
- "Three Men and a Werewolf"
- "Three Men and a Sasquatch"
- A Different Flesh
- A World of Difference
- Agent of Byzantium
- Alpha and Omega
- And the Last Trump Shall Sound
- Between the Rivers
- The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump
- Conan of Venarium
- Down in the Bottomlands
- Every Inch a King
- Fort Pillow
- Give Me Back My Legions!
- The Guns of the South
- Hail! Hail!
- Household Gods
- The House of Daniel
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies
- Joe Steele
- Justinian
- The Man with the Iron Heart
- Noninterference
- Or Even Eagle Flew
- Ruled Britannia
- Thessalonica
- The Two Georges
- Through Darkest Europe
- "A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
- "Election Day"
- "Getting Real"
- "The House That George Built"
- "Joe Steele"
- "Lee at the Alamo"
- "Liberating Alaska"
- "The Last Article"
- "Powerless"
- "The Road Not Taken"
- "Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers"
- "Uncle Alf"
- "Vilcabamba"
- "Zigeuner"
- Atlantis and Other Places
- Counting Up, Counting Down
- Departures
- Earthgrip
- Kaleidoscope
- Reincarnations
- The Best of Harry Turtledove
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