Great War (series)

Great War
Part of Southern Victory Series
World Map with the participants in World War I. The Entente Powers depicted in green, the Central Powers are in orange, and neutral countries are in grey.
Date June 28, 1914 – September 1917 Location Worldwide
Belligerents
Entente Powers:  Confederate States British Empire  United Kingdom Canada  Newfoundland  Australia  New Zealand South Africa  India Sandwich Islands France  Russia (1914-1917)  Belgium  Portugal  Serbia  Japan China Mexico  Argentina (1915-1917) Mormon rebels (1914-1915) Thailand	Central Powers:  United States  Haiti  Liberia  Quebec (1917) Congaree and Black Belt Socialist Republics (1915-1916) Other African American resistance groups  Germany Poland (1916-1917)  Austria-Hungary  Ottoman Empire  Bulgaria (1915-1917)  Chile (1915-1917)  Paraguay (1915-1917)  Brazil (1917) Irish Rebels (1916-1917)
Commanders and leaders
Woodrow Wilson Gabriel Semmes Emmanuel Sellars Jeb Stuart Jr. Jerome Hotchkiss  † Ralph Briggs Hampton Ready Nicholas Kincaid George V Prince Arthur Albert Robert Borden Pierre Lapin  † Malcolm Lockerby Nicholas II Albert I Francisco Jose I Herber Louis Jackson  (POW) Wendell Schmitt  (POW)	Theodore Roosevelt Robert Lansing Leonard Wood George Custer John Pershing George Dewey Bradley Fiske Alonzo Kent Irving Morrell Altrock Gilbert Koenig Jake Hoyland Foulkes Wilhelm II Erich Ludendorff Franz Joseph I Mehmed V Ferdinand I Dom Pedro IV Michael Collins Cassius  † Agamemnon Island  †

Great War is an alternate history trilogy by Harry Turtledove, which follows How Few Remain. It is part of Turtledove's Southern Victory Series series of novels. It takes the Southern Victory Series Earth from 1914 to 1917.

The Great War saga

Smarting from two defeats at the hands of the Confederate States of America, which was allied with the United Kingdom and France, the United States of America has turned to an alliance with the strengthening German Empire as well as Austria Hungary, and The Ottoman Empire. The US military has been reformed along German lines, and gets a great deal of technical assistance from Germany, especially with regard to fighter aircraft. The antebellum Republican Party has mostly collapsed, discredited by the defeats, leaving the right-winged Democratic Party and the left-winged Socialist Party (whose rise was aided by the defection of former President Abraham Lincoln and his supporters from the Republicans to the Socialists) as the main political parties in the United States.

When in 1914 the Great War breaks out in Europe following the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie by car bombing, both the USA and CSA join almost immediately on the side of their respective allies, and the USA is fighting a two-front war against Britain's primary representative on North America, Canada and Newfoundland to the north, and the Confederate States to the south. In eastern North America, the conflict soon bogs down into trench warfare, while in the West the battle lines are more fluid. Various characters are traced through the war, with several male characters changed forever by their military service. In South America, Chile went to war with Argentina.

In this series, the war remains known as "The Great War" and the term "World War" never comes into use. When a second war of comparable proportions breaks out twenty years later, it get named "The Second Great War" and the earlier one becomes retroactively "The First Great War".

Novels

• The Great War: American Front (1997)
• The Great War: Walk in Hell (1998)
• The Great War: Breakthroughs (1999)

Southern Victory Series

The Great War trilogy is followed by the American Empire trilogy and Settling Accounts tetralogy. It is preceded by his novel How Few Remain.