Return Engagement
From Turtledove
[edit] Plot
On the early morning of June 22, 1941, Jake Featherston commenced Operation Blackbeard, the Confederate invasion of the United States. Despite the growing signs of war approaching (such as the Confederacy's rearmament and moving troops into Kentucky and Houston after the plebiscites of 1941), the Confederacy took the U.S. by surprise and quickly forced their way up to the Great Lakes, cutting the United States in half. Featherston had been confident that a quick blow would force U.S. President Al Smith into surrender. However, Smith remained determined to carry on with the war up till his death in a Confederate bombardment over Philadelphia. The novel ends with former Vice President Charles La Follette becoming the new President.
[edit] Characters
- Flora Blackford
- Armstrong Grimes
- Clarence Potter
- Jefferson Pinkard
- Sam Carsten
- Anne Colleton
- Jonathan Moss
- Irving Morrell
- Mary McGregor Pomeroy
- Chester Martin
- Cincinnatus Driver
- Abner Dowling
- Scipio
- Hipolito Rodriguez
- Jake Featherston
- Leonard O'Doull
- George Enos, Jr.
- Tom Colleton
| The Southern Victory series | |||
| How Few Remain | Second Mexican War period | ||
| The Great War | American Front | Walk in Hell | Breakthroughs | Great War period | |
| American Empire | Blood and Iron | The Center Cannot Hold | The Victorious Opposition | Inter-War period | |
| Settling Accounts | Return Engagement | Drive to the East | The Grapple | In at the Death | Second Great War period | |
| Timeline-191 | |||
