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Timeline-191	comment	The Timeline 191 series is Harry Turtledove's most sweeping Alternate History work so far: Either ten or eleven books (depending on who's counting). Set in a world where the Union failed to intercept a message (Special Order 191, hence the timeline's name) intended for a Confederate officer before Antietam, which resulted in an independent Confederate States of America, complete with slavery.The series proper starts around World War I, although the series is sometimes known by the title of its first book, How Few Remain, which takes place in the 1880s. Amazon.com, and possibly others, refer to it as the "Southern Victory" series.The installments of the series : How Few Remain (1997) The Great War: American Front (1998) The Great War: Walk In Hell (1999) The Great War: Breakthroughs (2000) American Empire: Blood and Iron (2001) American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold (2002) American Empire: The Victorious Opposition (2003) Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (2004) Settling Accounts: Drive to the East (2005) Settling Accounts: The Grapple (2006) Settling Accounts: In at the Death (2007)Now has a Character Sheet under construction. Please help out.
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Timeline-191 / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Timeline-191 / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Sadly Truth in Television, especially when it comes to viewpoint characters during both Great Wars. Taken to ridiculous extremes with some characters: Reggie Bartlett is randomly shot after tearing down a Freedom Party sign, Anne Colleton dies during the Remembrance's air raid on Charleston, McGregor dies after Custer throws his bomb back at him, and Nellie Jacobs dies from blood poisoning caused by mishandling a chicken. A new viewpoint character usually takes over when another dies. Turtledove is also fond of doing this at the very start of each novel - Bartlett and Colleton die at the start of The Center Cannot Hold and Return Engagement respectively. In fact Turtledove kills off at least one POV character in every book. How Few Remain indeed.
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Timeline-191 / int_1274565b	type	Up Through the Ranks
Timeline-191 / int_1274565b	comment	Up Through the Ranks: Sam Carsten starts out as an enlisted man in the US Navy. During the period between the Great War and the Second Great War, he takes a test to become an officer, passes, and eventually gets his own command in the later books.
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Timeline-191 / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Timeline-191 / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: Armstrong Custer dislikes gatling guns even though he has personally used them to great effect against Confederates and their native american allies. He gets assigned a whole bunch of them and they play a vital role in defeating the British/Canadians at the Battle of the Teton River (the only U.S. victory during the Second Mexican War).
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Timeline-191 / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Timeline-191 / int_137f2d7	comment	As obvious as the parallels between the Confederate Population Reduction and our world's Holocaust are, it does enable Turtledove to make some important points about how such atrocities happen, about the bureaucracy involved and how most real-world Nazis and war criminals were not Card Carrying Villains that are easier and more palatable to digest in fictional form.
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Timeline-191 / int_1484dba1	type	Foreshadowing
Timeline-191 / int_1484dba1	comment	Foreshadowing: By the time the series gets to the interwar period readers can probably guess what the next major event will be. Nonetheless, events like the Business Crash are foreshadowed by a number of civilian characters cheerfully describing how well their investments are doing. Custer could be a military version of Disco Dan, as he appears to openly hate any military innovations introduced after his graduation from West Point in 1861. He nonetheless uses state-of-the-art military technology (massed Gatling guns) to earn the USA's sole victory in the Second Mexican War in How Few Remain. He does it again with massed barrels during the First Great War.
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Timeline-191 / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Timeline-191 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Then there's the reaction to people finding out about the Confederacy's "Population Reduction" program : "God forbid, it could happen to the Jews!"
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Timeline-191 / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Timeline-191 / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Many, but especially Chester Martin and Michael Pound.
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Timeline-191 / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Timeline-191 / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the last book Flora Blackford notes that "It wasn't given to many men to be in at the birth of something wonderful. If you couldn't do that, being in at the death of something foul was almost as good." Several other characters also comment on "being in at the death." In fact, most of the books in the series do it at one point or another.
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Timeline-191 / int_20751e73	type	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
Timeline-191 / int_20751e73	comment	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: Clarence Potter uses stolen US military uniforms and vehicles to smuggle the Confederacy's first (and only) nuclear bomb into Philadelphia (which is serving as the US capital). He sets two timers, just to be sure it goes off, and ends up destroying half the city.
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Timeline-191 / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Timeline-191 / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Several, but most prominently Cincinnatus Driver, Sylvia Enos, and Nellie Semproch. Jefferson Pinkard with regard to his second wife and her children also counts (if you discount the way he is during his day job).
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Timeline-191 / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Timeline-191 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The complete lack of anything resembling a free society anywhere on the planet. The USA and CSA are effectively police states (with the CSA becoming an outright dictatorship under Featherston) for all that they have elections and pay lip service to individual rights. Every other country mentioned in the series is either a dictatorship, becomes a dictatorship, is under occupation by a dictatorship, or a puppet state of a dictatorship ( Quebec and Houston—later the whole once-again-independent Republic of Texas for the USA, with Haiti implied as a USA protectorate. Parts of Mexico and the whole of Cuba were annexed by the CSA, and the Empire of Mexico is effectively a puppet of the CSA.). World War I and World War II equivalents playing out in full bloody detail in North America as well as Europe don't help matters. As far as the USA is concerned. It's certainly true that the USA was close to a police-state during the period between 1881 and 1917, when it emulated its Imperial German ally in many spheres and the Democratic Party had a monopoly on the White House and Congress. However, after the USA's victory in the Great War, things loosened up a lot - not least in that the Democrats finally acquired serious political opposition in the form of the Socialist Party, which took the White House and both houses of Congress in the 1920 election and governed the USA with only one four-year break between 1920 and 1944. To cite just one example, once the Socialists got into power, labor unions (as seen in the Chester Martin storyline) had a far easier time of it organizing and agitating for better conditions and wages. The USA has most of the North American continent either under direct military occupation or as puppet states (Texas, Quebec, and likely Mexico and an independent Cuba) after 1944. Sustaining martial law in an area several times the size of the core USA probably will require its citizens to make even more sacrifices in the name of security. There are, however, indications that the USA's new acquisitions/puppets may fall into line. Perhaps most importantly, the Canadian resistance has been absolutely shattered, and most Canadians seem to be assimilating well (there are also indications that Canadian provinces will be granted statehood at some point). Texas will likely be able to govern itself. Cuba will probably be fairly pro-US, because it funded their anti-Confederate rebellion. The US also has a lot of friends in Mexico, due to their backing of the (losing) republican side in their Spanish Civil War-analogue before WWII. Quebec has always been quiescent. As for the old Confederacy, though, it seems like the US will be in for a long insurgency. The real crapsack world here would be those under the dominion of Imperial Japan, who are implied to be becoming more and more brutally militaristic with each success. And with the US uninterested in them after the Second Great War other than keeping them from US Pacific territory, they're pretty much left to Rape, Pillage, and Burn East Asia at their leisure. Ironically thanks to the invention of the superbomb, there are signs that the world will turn out for the better in the future. Much like in OTL, the rampant use of superbombings has caused nations that have superbombs to be weary of deploying them, while those who don't have superbombs are more willing to fall in line lest they wind up with their equivalents of London, Hamburg, Paris, Philadelphia or Charleston. Alongside is the ratification of the Dewey Doctrine, in which the US, alongside Germany, will police the world to ensure that superbomb technology does not spread, all the while a growing focus on rebuilding is spreading amongst the nations. Overall, the end of the Second Great War is just as hopeful as the end of our World War II, perhaps even more so as the Soviet Union and accompanying Red Scare do not exist.
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Timeline-191 / int_22224d05	type	Straw Civilian
Timeline-191 / int_22224d05	comment	Straw Civilian: Returning home after the Confederate defeat in the Great War, Jefferson Pinkard is accosted in a train station by a woman who criticises him for being a coward. This kind of thing did sometimes happen in real life in some European countries, but it was more common before everyone realised it wouldn't be over by Christmas.
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Timeline-191 / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Timeline-191 / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: During the Great War, Clarence Potter is looking for black Socialist sympathizers and artilleryman Jake Featherston points out his commanding officer (J. E. B. Stuart III)'s black servant. J. E. B. Stuart Jr. blocks any further investigation, and when the servant shows his true colors, the disgraced Stuart III gets himself killed in battle. Blaming them for what happened, Stuart Jr. prevents Potter and Featherston from ever seeing another promotion for the rest of their lives...which is Featherston's Start of Darkness.
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Timeline-191 / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Timeline-191 / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Abner Dowling with regard to just about everything Custer did, MacArthur's plans for an amphibious invasion of the Virginia coast, and again with Camp Determination. Also Lucien Galtier's response to just about everything that's happened. Mark Twain's newspaper editorials fill this role in How Few Remain.
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Timeline-191 / int_258a5cfe	type	Different World, Different Movies
Timeline-191 / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: The changes in the timeline lead to a few noticeable differences in American pop culture. Among other things: John Wayne (who still goes by his real name "Marion Morrison") first becomes a movie star after starring as Theodore Roosevelt in a film about his exploits in the Second Mexican War; when Superman comics become popular in the 1940s, they depict Superman fighting evil Confederate soldiers (instead of fighting Nazis like the ones in Real Life), inspiring Southern publishers to introduce their own Alternate Company Equivalent called "Hyperman"; and Humphrey Bogart stars in a film called The Maltese Elephant instead of The Maltese Falcon.
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Timeline-191 / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Timeline-191 / int_25b5600	comment	In-universe, the most popular comic book in the Confederacy is "Hyperman", a thinly-disguised Captain Ersatz of Superman who was specifically created by the Confederates because they didn't want kids reading Superman comics, where he fights the evil Confederates.
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Timeline-191 / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
Timeline-191 / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: How Few Remain, appropriately, is a reference to a line from a poem by Abraham Lincoln himself. Blood and Iron is a reference to Otto von Bismarck's "Blut und Eisen" speech. The Center Cannot Hold is a reference to the poem The Second Coming. The Victorious Opposition (which is mainly about the rise of the A Nazi by Any Other Name Freedom Party to power) is a reference to the Devil's Dictionary, and the full quote forms the book's prefix: Drive to the East is an English translation of "Drang nach Osten", describing a German desire to expand into and settle Eastern Europe cited during the OTL Second World War.
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Timeline-191 / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Timeline-191 / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Turtledove's own The Guns of the South.
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Timeline-191 / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Timeline-191 / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The 'Empire' of Mexico has ceded large amounts of territory to both the CSA and USA over the course of the series, covers much less territory than Mexico in Real Life, and tends to do whatever the CSA 'politely requests'. The Second Mexican War wasn't fought against Mexico, and only part of it took place south of the Mexican border. The war was between the United States and the Confederate States, and the part of Mexico where the fighting took place was technically part of the Confederacy at the time. The name refers to the fact that it was sparked by the Confederates acquiring two territories in Mexico, which led the US to invade to stop them from forming a transcontinental empire. The 'Freedom' Party under Featherston changes the CSA from a nominal democracy where at least whites enjoy constitutional freedoms to a police state where everyone regardless of color can be eliminated if they step out of line.
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Timeline-191 / int_29b218b4	type	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous
Timeline-191 / int_29b218b4	comment	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous: Several famous historical figures pop up. It's justified in most cases; a long-term Congresswoman and former First Lady being friends with Senator Robert Taft, or Irving Morrell, regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on barrels, meeting Heinz Guderian.
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Timeline-191 / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
Timeline-191 / int_2a035a26	comment	Blackford is the US president during the Great Depression instead of Herbert Hoover, resulting in shanty towns of unlucky stockholders being called Blackfordburghs rather than Hoovervilles. In the Confederate States, they're called Mitcheltowns in "honor" of Burton Mitchel. And the funny thing is, Blackford is succeeded by Hoover as President. Throwing a little Allohistorical Allusion into the mix, Blackford's wife calls them "Hoovervilles" at least once in the series (which doesn't stick here).
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Timeline-191 / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Timeline-191 / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: True to the genre, several characters wonder what their lives might have been like had history been different. Then there's the reaction to people finding out about the Confederacy's "Population Reduction" program : "God forbid, it could happen to the Jews!" More directly when Featherston's director of communications Saul Goldman (and the analogue to Joseph Goebbels) remarks that if it had happened in Europe, people would probably be blaming Jews rather than blacks, which even Featherston agrees with. Goldman himself is Jewish. (Featherston disapproves pretty strongly of Russian anti-Semitism; he himself doesn't have any especial use for Jews in general, but he makes a point of emphasizing, in his warped racial worldview, that Jews are whites as good as any other whites. One wonders how he would have reacted to Beta Israel—i.e., Ethiopian Jews.) Turtledove also mentions "world of if" stories being popular—with one of the more common stories being the US winning the War of Secession.
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Timeline-191 / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
Timeline-191 / int_2a3006e5	comment	Almost every member of the Freedom Party Guard, given that they're pretty much the SS.
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Timeline-191 / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Timeline-191 / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: In How Few Remain, Schlieffen quotes the Latin phrase "Vae Victus" (meaning "Woe to the Conquered", first said by Brennus the Gaul when he defeated the Romans in battle) when he's telling President Blaine that he has no choice but to accept defeat in the war with the Confederates. Blaine quickly points out that it was the Romans, not the Gauls, that ultimately won that war. Sure enough, America bounces back and ends up trouncing the Confederates in World War I.
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Timeline-191 / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Timeline-191 / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The most popular soft drink in the Confederacy is "Doctor Hopper".
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Timeline-191 / int_2bc09017	type	Rebellious Rebel
Timeline-191 / int_2bc09017	comment	Rebellious Rebel: Texas and Cuba break off from the CSA near the end of the Second Great War and assert their independence. Ulster's protestants attempt to pull this off after Ireland becomes independent from Britain. It doesn't work.
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Timeline-191 / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Timeline-191 / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Both the Union and Confederacy make use of soldiers who sound like Southerners/Northerners and dress them in the other side's uniforms to cause confusion behind the lines. This is how Potter manages to smuggle a nuke over the border. His status as a Karma Houdini is only due to the Union doing the same thing. Roger Kimball's raids on New York harbor and Chesapeake Bay are littoral examples of the trope. Not really traditional versions of the trope—these are people who wear the enemy's uniforms to sneak behind enemy lines. A more classic example is the Freedom Party's use of a black assassin to get Huey Long out of the way.
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Timeline-191 / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Timeline-191 / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Though Turtledove doesn't shy away from actual swear words, occasionally he employs this. Some notable examples:
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Timeline-191 / int_3079b64	type	Author Catchphrase
Timeline-191 / int_3079b64	comment	Author Catchphrase: The phrase "It never even crossed his mind that..." or variations thereof shows up a lot to demonstrate some form of hypocrisy on the part of the viewpoint characters. Possible example of Narm, depending on your point of view. There are many cases of characters thinking that "the next time X happens will be the first", when X is something deemed impossible or highly unlikely. There are also many, many instances of events happening "as if to punctuate what was just said." A typical form of Understatement the author uses is that a character will indicate that he is imperfectly X (e.g. imperfectly sympathetic) when he means the exact opposite of X. Typically, in hostile negotiations, the author will emphasize that the parties are staying "what the diplomats called 'correct'", often explaining that the term means that they hate each other, but don't let it show. "On Shank's mare" shows up in most of Turtledove's works set on Earth. "It was as good an answer as any, and better than most," is a phrase you'll almost never hear. Turtledove uses it... again... and again... and again....
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Timeline-191 / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Timeline-191 / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Most of the US whites are as racist as their Confederate adversaries, such that they pay little mind to the sufferings of the Confederacy's black population. However, when the Freedom Party starts butchering blacks, and more so when Camp Determination is captured, the Yankees see that their already hated enemies have crossed the line. Indeed, as many a individual white Northerner has stated, it's one thing to hate blacks, it's another to actually slaughter them.note Truth in Television as this was pretty much the Allied attitude toward Jews when the Holocaust came to light; even the Soviets, renowned for pogroms under the empire and (in Stalin's final months on earth) on the verge of a fully-fledged purge of Jews from the party and government, took issue to it.
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Timeline-191 / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Timeline-191 / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: A LOT. The Mormons are almost constantly in rebellion against the United States, starting in 1881. Black Marxist guerrillas harass the Confederacy during the Great War, and they are crushed. Other black rebellions, driven more by survival than ideology, flare up in the Confederacy thereafter. During the Second Great War, escaped US POWs occasionally join up with these guerrilla bands. Canadian patriots rise up at several points during and after the American conquest. Freedom Party sympathizers engage in open, armed rebellion against US authorities in territories taken from the Confederacy after the Great War. Both the USA and the CSA sponsor rebels and subversives in Kentucky at various points. Other, smaller examples include the Mexican Republicans and Native American tribes in Sequoyah during the Great War.
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Timeline-191 / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Timeline-191 / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Jerry Dover occasionally talks like this, when he isn't using other obscenities.
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Timeline-191 / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Timeline-191 / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: YMMV, but things seem to go all too well for the CSA between 1861 and about 1915 considering it is a nepotistic, ethnically divided country that ties itself to a rural economy and slavery while the rest of the world embraces the second industrial revolution. It's justified since the intention of the author was to recycle World War I IN AMERICA!, but still. Still plausible within limits, in that the Confederacy is no longer practicing slavery by 1915 (replacing it with an apartheid-analogue; South Africa in our timeline was able to industrialize well enough despite the limitations of the system). Proximity to the United States provides lots of opportunities for industrial espionage, with people like Clarence Potter able to take advantage of US university educations during peacetime. And Britain and France—two of the most industrialized countries in the world at the time—are close at hand to provide technical expertise. However, given that the Confederacy from the start is far behind the United States in population and expertise, and the United States as a tremendous head start in industrialization, their success in this timeline has to be taken with a grain of salt. Yet none of that explains how the CSA was able to start after the USA and Germany on superbombs, finish one before the USA, and do so without anyone mentioned from our history working for the CSA on the project. There is no plausible explanation for how the CSA pulled that off.
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Timeline-191 / int_39a63cd3	type	City of Spies
Timeline-191 / int_39a63cd3	comment	City of Spies: Washington D.C., being much too close to the Confederate border to be a safe or effective US capitol, has become this at least through the First Great War when the Confederates occupy it.
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Timeline-191 / int_3ae5bcf1	type	Trojan Ambulance
Timeline-191 / int_3ae5bcf1	comment	Trojan Ambulance: CSA President Jake Featherston travels in a vehicle marked with the Red Cross to avoid being shot at by USA forces.
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Timeline-191 / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
Timeline-191 / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: In response to Featherston having Clarence Potter dentate a superbomb in Philadelphia, the U.S. drops its first superbomb on Newport News believing Jake Featherston was located there. Wiping out an entire city just to try and kill one person.
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Timeline-191 / int_3d6fa277	type	AuthorOnBoard
Timeline-191 / int_3d6fa277	comment	Author on Board: Turtledove's analogy to Islamic fundamentalism. He chooses Mormons for the role. In later books, though, the conflict that they inspire has a lot more parallels with The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the US playing the role of Britain.
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Timeline-191 / int_3e7a80ee	type	Second American Civil War
Timeline-191 / int_3e7a80ee	comment	Second American Civil War: With the Confederacy having won the first American Civil War, the in-universe equivalents to WWI and WWII are de facto teh
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Timeline-191 / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
Timeline-191 / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: In an in-universe inversion, many of the United States' Founding Fathers, like the Virginians George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, are much less well-regarded by United States citizens in this timeline because they were Southern, and Northerners no longer consider Southerners to be their countrymen. Very few of the Founding Fathers appear on US currency, with their "national hero" roles being filled by figures like Custer and Roosevelt, who are celebrated for fighting the Confederates.
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Timeline-191 / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Timeline-191 / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Jonathan Moss, in his interwar career as an 'occupation law' attorney. Moss opposed his own government in court regarding claims made by Canadians for property seized by the US Army and was noted by Canadians as providing honest representation. Unfortunately this did not end well for Moss, whose family was killed by a resistance bombing. Flora Hamburger's political career starts this way, although she does become an Iron Lady after being exposed to the inner circles of power.
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Timeline-191 / int_3fba7250	type	Father Neptune
Timeline-191 / int_3fba7250	comment	Father Neptune: Sam Carsten develops into him over the course of the series. Arguably, George Enos Sr. already was the civilian version before joining the Navy in the First Great War. For the Confederates, Roger Kimball fills the role.
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Timeline-191 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Timeline-191 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: As observed by reviewer Lionel Ward, the ending can only be considered happy in the sense that the Freedom Party was defeated. The United States is a much darker, less egalitarian, and less globally regarded nation than it was after the real World War II, and on top of that they're trying to control no less than three groups of former enemies (the Confederates, the Mormons, and the Canadians) while treating them with utter contempt, meaning the next rebellion is more a matter of "when" than "if". There's no United Nations in this universe, just a vague form of nuclear regulatory committee overseen by the US and Germany lording over the other nations, and there are plenty of international powers with the means and motives to start trouble in the future — assuming the US doesn't do it themselves, such as trying to forcibly re-assimilate Texas (itself an independent nation at the end of the story) along with Chihuahua and Sonora (which Mexico more than likely wants back). Should also be noted that while Japan is not a nuclear power at the end of the war, they came through relatively unscathed, as the USA doesn't have the resources to do the island hopping campaign that occurred in real life. There will almost certainly be future conflict between the USA and Japan (and there's been at least two conflicts besides the world wars already).
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Timeline-191 / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Timeline-191 / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: The Mein Kampf parallel, Jake Featherston's Over Open Sights, is intentionally terrible because Featherston is mostly self-educated and does nothing more than rant about how much he hates Yankees and black people. Unlike Mein Kampf it's only published after Featherston becomes president and starts the war with the USA (this change is likely because Turtledove felt that it would be implausible for a Hitler-parallel to write a "Mein Kampf" style book long before he came to power in a language that he shared with his primary rival nation and not attract more attention) and most Confederates are disappointed to find that it's just a less coherent version of the speeches he'd been giving for years.
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Timeline-191 / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Timeline-191 / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Goes hand-in-hand with Anyone Can Die. Nellie Jacobs dies from mishandling raw chicken, for God's sake! Sam Carsten lived through both Great Wars, risen up through the naval ranks to the point where he's a well-respected officer...and then in one of his last scenes scratches a mole that bleeds, implying that his sensitivity to the sun has given him melanoma, a cancer that's usually fatal even now, and certainly would be in 1945.
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Timeline-191 / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Timeline-191 / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: Several popular mods for Victoria and Hearts of Iron incorporate all or part of the events of Timeline 191.
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Timeline-191 / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
Timeline-191 / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: When Yossel Reisen dies in World War I, his fiancee Sophie names her unborn son after him. Yossel II grows up just in time to serve in World War II, though he survives.
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Timeline-191 / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Timeline-191 / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jerry Dover, with regard to Scipio. Scipio and his family are able to survive almost to the end of the series mainly because Jerry repeatedly sticks his neck out for them, despite the risk to him and his business. Once Jerry gets drafted, all bets are off.
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Timeline-191 / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Timeline-191 / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Scipio has to watch his back with almost everyone he encounters and his situation seems to go from bad to worse...all the way to the end.
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Timeline-191 / int_48078a7	type	Cool Versus Awesome
Timeline-191 / int_48078a7	comment	Cool Versus Awesome: CSA Major General George S. Patton versus the USA Expy of Erwin Rommel.
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Timeline-191 / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Timeline-191 / int_4a32f262	comment	Abner Dowling regards being sent to west Texas, a secondary front in the Second Great War, as such an assignment. Reassignment Backfire ensues when he discovers (and liberates) Camp Determination.
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Timeline-191 / int_4e64ae3a	type	Rip Van Tinkle
Timeline-191 / int_4e64ae3a	comment	Rip Van Tinkle: A severely sleep-deprived pilot is forcibly sidelined by the airbase Chief Medical Officer, who cons him into taking a sleeping pill. When he wakes up (48 hours later) he feels a hell of a lot better overall but really desperate for a piss.
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Timeline-191 / int_4e90e76c	type	Be All My Sins Remembered
Timeline-191 / int_4e90e76c	comment	Dowling sees himself this way as well. In reality, he's considered by his Confederate counterparts as a formidable threat, able to improvise when the USA's lack of preparedness for the Second Great War rears its head and he is forced to make a fighting retreat through Ohio. Dowling has benefitted from years of experience covering for Custer's missteps. And for that matter, Custer, for all his deficiencies as a general, was a good professional mentor, and he did get a few things right.
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Timeline-191 / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Timeline-191 / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: How Few Remain, the first book, is the only standalone novel in the entire series, and it is told completely from the point of view of historical characters note Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, George Armstrong Custer, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, J.E.B. Stewart, Alfred von Schlieffen and Mark Twain, to be exact. Every book after it is part of a continuous arc with an established cast of fictional characters, most of whom are street-level everymen who occasionally act as Been There, Shaped History. The 33 year Time Skip between How Few Remain and the rest of the series is also a bit jarring. The earlier installments of the Great War series in Timeline-191 clearly alludes to the United States becoming analogous to Germany in our timeline; everything from the stalhelm-expies to the CSA reenacting the Battle of Messines by burying an enormous mine under a position held by US troops, to the CSA offering slaves citizenship points to the CSA becoming a UK analogue post Great War. Of course, Turtledove seems to have realized that readers might not be particularly sympathetic to Confederates.
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Timeline-191 / int_515edb43	type	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent
Timeline-191 / int_515edb43	comment	Fantasy Landmark Equivalent: In this universe, the Statue of Liberty does not exist due to poor relations between France and the United States. Standing in its place is the German-influenced Statue of Remembrance, carrying a sword in its right hand and a shield in its left.
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Timeline-191 / int_52d4cd25	type	Anonymous Ringer
Timeline-191 / int_52d4cd25	comment	Anonymous Ringer: There's a de-emphasis on geopolitics, so many characters are just referred to by title. Mind you, it's not difficult to figure out who "the Kaiser" and "the Tsar" are.
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Timeline-191 / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Timeline-191 / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: In the Great War trilogy, Cincinnatus Driver and other African-American truck drivers for the U.S. find themselves involved in a confrontation when new white drivers object to them earning bonuses and working jobs other than drudge labor. Not one of the white drivers they've been working with, including a man Cincinnatus had considered a friend, speaks up for the African-American drivers. In The Grapple, Cincinnatus, the only dark-skinned driver in his unit, gets into an argument with a mouthy white sergeant. Every single one of his white coworkers loudly and immediately takes his side.
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Timeline-191 / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Timeline-191 / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Guess.
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Timeline-191 / int_560fd3cb	type	Fan Sequel
Timeline-191 / int_560fd3cb	comment	Fan Sequel: One of the members of AlternateHistory.com has written one for the timeline's post-WWII years. Read it here. As of June 2013, it has been finally completed and chronicles the developments of the TL-191 world between the alternate 1944 and 2009.
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Timeline-191 / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Timeline-191 / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: After the defense budget is slashed by the first Socialist administration, Irving Morrell ends up reassigned to Kamloops, British Columbia. Abner Dowling regards being sent to west Texas, a secondary front in the Second Great War, as such an assignment. Reassignment Backfire ensues when he discovers (and liberates) Camp Determination.
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Timeline-191 / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
Timeline-191 / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The Featherston-ruled Confederacy bears some resemblance to Nazi Germany. Also, the Mormon jihadists. Played With in the case of the USA. It eventually morphs into a Culture Chop Suey of the Union and Imperial Germany...and is led by German-style social democrats! Now that's what I call an Alternate Universe... Not to mention the British and French becoming fascists and an equivalent of WWII Italy and Japan. And Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary and Imperial Germany becoming more liberal and turning into a thinly-veiled Expy of our world's inter-war USA and Canada.
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Timeline-191 / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Timeline-191 / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: As in real life, the Confederacy forms in order to keep slavery alive. Even after giving up slavery they maintain an oppressive apartheid system, and ultimately become an analog for Nazi Germany. But the United States is similarly militaristic and brutal, and only marginally less racist (several black characters in the CSA muse that they wouldn't be much better off in the USA). They also embrace horrifying tactics during the wars (including arresting and executing random civilians in response to guerilla attacks).
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Timeline-191 / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Timeline-191 / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The USA supplies arms and ammunition to the Red Marxists in the Confederacy during the Great War. Though the USA is racist and the Marxists would like to overthrow their ruling class as well as the Confederacy's, the two sides have a common enemy in the CSA. The CSA returns the favor by arming Utah's Mormon insurgents during both the First and Second Great Wars; the Confederates and the Mormons despise each other, but both hate the USA. The Confederates bomb the USA's atomic bomb research facility in Washington state with a one-way mission resembling Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, landing their bombers in Canada. Although they don't expect the bombers to be useable after the mission, they figure there's an off-chance the Canadian resistance can use them against the US occupiers.
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Timeline-191 / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Timeline-191 / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Shows up often. Justified, since it's an Alternate History series and has a more America-centric 19th and 20th century as its Backstory. The most obvious is tanks being called "barrels". Not as ridiculous as it sounds, as this was one of the names they were given during their genesis. The name "tank" actually comes from what the British claimed to be building. The British call their tanks "tanks" even in this alternate timeline, but it doesn't catch on internationally (much like "Char" is used only for French tanks and "Panzer" for German and Polish ones in our history). Tank destroyers are called "barrel busters". Molotov Cocktails are called "Featherston Fizzes" after the President of the Confederacy. They hardly could have been named for Molotov, considering the White forces won the Russian Civil War and there is no Soviet Union. For an additional irony, the last Bolshevik stronghold to fall is Tsaritsyn, the monarchist name for Stalingrad, now Volgograd. The element neptunium is called "saturnium", and plutonium is called "jovium" (or "churchillium" if you're British). The US still calls the elements what they are called in our timeline. It's mostly because the Confederacy really hates the US. Regular atomic weapons are referred to as superbombs. Sunbombs are mentioned at the very end of the series as a future development and are described as far more devastating (and the sun persists on hydrogen fusion), so that term is likely referencing hydrogen/thermonuclear bombs (the first of which was tested in our timeline's 1952). Suicide bombers are called "people bombs". Radar is called "Y-range/Y-ranging" ("Y" for "wireless"). The Panzershreck-like rocket launchers used by the CS army in the Second Great War are called "Stove Pipes".note Doubles as a Genius Bonus, as "stove pipe" - or rather, "ofenrohr" - was an actual nickname for the Panzershreck. Blackford is the US president during the Great Depression instead of Herbert Hoover, resulting in shanty towns of unlucky stockholders being called Blackfordburghs rather than Hoovervilles. In the Confederate States, they're called Mitcheltowns in "honor" of Burton Mitchel. And the funny thing is, Blackford is succeeded by Hoover as President. Throwing a little Allohistorical Allusion into the mix, Blackford's wife calls them "Hoovervilles" at least once in the series (which doesn't stick here). The influence of Imperial Germany on the US military and industry is also apparent once you realize The Union calls their monoplanes "one-deckers" (mirroring the German aviation terms "eindecker", "doppeldecker", "dreidecker" for a monoplane, biplane, triplane, etc.). Jet fighters are called "Turbos." A new word - "flabble" - (roughly synonymous with "whine") ends up gaining an awful lot of popularity. Characters routinely say they are 'throwing in the sponge' rather than throwing in the towel when they decide to call it quits on something. When the Confederacy changes their uniforms, they refer to the color as "butternut" rather than "khaki". Truth in Television, as "butternut" was the actual Confederate term for khaki.
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Timeline-191 / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Timeline-191 / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Jonathan Moss' non-military career is dedicated to preserving some amount of fairness in Canada's new legal system (which is extremely biased against native Canadians). Much later, he represents Jefferson Pinkard who is convinced (and not without some justification) that his war crimes trial is little more than a formality.
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Timeline-191 / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Timeline-191 / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Most African-Americans in the Confederacy are named either for Biblical figures or for historic Romans. When friends from the U.S. ask Cincinnatus Driver why Confederate blacks have such fancy names, he theorizes that, being forbidden surnames, they want to pack as much meaning into their given names as they can. Several white characters were also named after famous figures, notably Jefferson Davis Pinkard, Armstrong Grimes, and Laura Secord.
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Timeline-191 / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Timeline-191 / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Henderson FitzBelmont, head of the Confederate atomic bomb project
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Timeline-191 / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Timeline-191 / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The sex scenes. The fans don't approve. He's also fond of having Jewish characters.
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Timeline-191 / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Timeline-191 / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: Several notable ones in the both the Union and Confederacy: Overseeing the U.S.'s defeat in both the War of Secession and Second Mexican War causes the Republicans to be supplanted by the newly formed Socialist Party as the other big two party in U.S. politics. The Sodalists being a big tent mix of genuine radicals like Eugene Debs but also more standard progressive reformers like Al Smith. The main parties of the Confederacy are the Whigs and Radical Liberals. The Whigs are the dominant party (every C.S. President before Featherston was a Whig) and are composed of the aristocratic landholding elite of the Confederacy. Radical Liberalsm meanwhile are mainly a party based out of the Confederacy's western and Mexican territories and composed of reformers. Then there's obviously Jake Featherston's Freedom Party.
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Timeline-191 / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
Timeline-191 / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: Donald Partridge, the second vice president of evil Confederate Nazi President Jake Featherston, is chosen for that office specifically because he is an ineffectual cipher. Featherston's first Vice President had tried to assassinate him. Partridge doesn't do much more than hang out with society ladies and tell jokes. Also true on the Union side — at one point the USA Vice President tells his in-laws that his job is to sit around collecting dust unless something happens to the President.
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Timeline-191 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Timeline-191 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Cininnatus Driver's contact among the Black Marxists of Kentucky is a man named Apicius, who runs a barbecue shack outside Covington. Apicius is the name of an ancient Roman cookbook (and possibly that of its author as well).
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Timeline-191 / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Timeline-191 / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Confederates are forced to find less personal methods of genocide when concentration camp guards start committing suicide from the stress of repeatedly marching prisoners into the woods and machine gunning them. A specific example is Hipolito Rodriguez, who guards one of the camps in Texas. He ends up befriending a couple of the prisoners; when he finally realizes that the prisoners are people and not sub-human monsters, and he has been actively participating in their genocide, he eats his gun.
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Timeline-191 / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Timeline-191 / int_7040b6bc	comment	A typical form of Understatement the author uses is that a character will indicate that he is imperfectly X (e.g. imperfectly sympathetic) when he means the exact opposite of X.
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Timeline-191 / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Timeline-191 / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Being a period piece, this isn't so unusual. In the First Great War, US characters occasionally mention that the quality of tobacco products have gone downhill since the war put an end to trade with the Confederacy.
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Timeline-191 / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Timeline-191 / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: At Jefferson Pinkard's trial, he offers no defence - not even "I was Just Following Orders" - but points out that while his actions were horrific instituting their version of the "Final Solution", the victorious North only cares about what the Confederates were doing because it was the Confederates who were doing it. Given other comments from Northerners elsewhere, he clearly has a point (not that it saves him).
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Timeline-191 / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Timeline-191 / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Cassius Madison later repays the multiple times Jerry Dover helped his family through Freedom Party witch hunts by using the political pull he'd gained in the US for killing Jake Featherston by getting Dover released from a POW camp.
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Timeline-191 / int_73dd919c	type	Genteel Interbellum Setting
Timeline-191 / int_73dd919c	comment	By the time the series gets to the interwar period readers can probably guess what the next major event will be. Nonetheless, events like the Business Crash are foreshadowed by a number of civilian characters cheerfully describing how well their investments are doing.
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Timeline-191 / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Timeline-191 / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Defied in The Grapple. Koenig wants to name Pinkard's newest death camp "Camp Destruction" or "Camp Devastation". In refusing to do so, Pinkard warns of the effect such a name would have on the prisoners.
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Timeline-191 / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Timeline-191 / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Dowling reflects about this during his conversation with Lucullus Wood.
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Timeline-191 / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Timeline-191 / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Confederate General George S. Patton challenges Clarence Potter to one; as challenged party, Potter has the right to choose the weapons. Potter's choice? Flamethrowers at two paces. Patton actually thought he was serious for a moment, before laughing it off as a joke.
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Timeline-191 / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Timeline-191 / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: The nail in this case is Special order 191, a general movement order issued by Confederate General Robert E. Lee outlining the routes and timing of the movements of the Army of Northern Virginia. In our timeline, a copy of the order was lost and recovered by the Union Army, giving them an important advantage in subsequent battles. In Timeline 191 of the novels, the Confederate aide who lost the order quickly picks it back up again; without the advantage, the Union ends up losing the Civil War and the Confederate states successfully secede into their own country.
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Timeline-191 / int_7c3dda61	type	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility
Timeline-191 / int_7c3dda61	comment	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility: Starts out reasonably hard in How Few Remain, but, gets softer and softer with every sequel. The historical parallelism of the last 3 or 4 novels (depicting an alternate WWII set mostly in North America) often runs to absurd degrees (basically becoming just an American re-telling of European history of the first half of the 20. century).
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Timeline-191 / int_7d30a8fa	type	But We Used a Condom!
Timeline-191 / int_7d30a8fa	comment	But We Used a Condom!: When Flora Blackford reveals that she's pregnant, her husband's approximate reaction is to say, "Well, so much for prophylactics," and then he says, "This is wonderful!"
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Timeline-191 / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
Timeline-191 / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Maggie Stevenson, a prostitute that Sam Carsten visits in Honolulu during World War I, fills this role. She charges about ten times as much as most other hookers in the city, she operates out of a large manor house (complete with armed guards), and she generally carries herself like a high-society gentlewoman. By World War II, she's effectively become the owner of Honolulu's Red Light district.
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Timeline-191 / int_83d3bf25	type	Anvilicious
Timeline-191 / int_83d3bf25	comment	The Featherston-ruled Confederacy bears some resemblance to Nazi Germany. Also, the Mormon jihadists.
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Timeline-191 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Timeline-191 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Some readers objected to having La Follette and especially Teddy Roosevelt defeated after leading the United States through victorious wars. In fact, this is exactly what happened in Real Life to George H. W. Bush, who was defeated less than two years after the successful Gulf War, and to Winston Churchill, who was defeated less than three months after Hitler's defeat.
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Timeline-191 / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Timeline-191 / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Donald Patridge, the last president of the Confederacy, is promptly arrested by American soldiers after signing the papers to end the war. It is unknown if he was executed, imprisoned or exonerated for any crimes.
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Timeline-191 / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Timeline-191 / int_875615dd	comment	When the Confederacy changes their uniforms, they refer to the color as "butternut" rather than "khaki". Truth in Television, as "butternut" was the actual Confederate term for khaki.
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Timeline-191 / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
Timeline-191 / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: Of How Few Remain... and of actual history.
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Timeline-191 / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Timeline-191 / int_90e31482	comment	Anne Colleton intercedes on behalf of Sylvia Enos before a Confederate court, despite Sylvia being from an enemy country and a much lower social class. Sylvia was in the dock for having shot Roger Kimball to avenge her dead husband, who was aboard a ship Kimball had sunk after the First Great War had ended. Given that Kimball had earlier tried to rape Anne, a little Laser-Guided Karma was at play here.
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Timeline-191 / int_918b260a	type	Pinkerton Detective
Timeline-191 / int_918b260a	comment	Pinkerton Detective: Pinkertons work as strike breakers and are present at several of those that Chester Martin takes part in.
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Timeline-191 / int_92d6110b	type	Grenade Hot Potato
Timeline-191 / int_92d6110b	comment	Grenade Hot Potato: In Blood and Iron Arthur McGregor chucks a homemade bomb at George Custer during a parade. Custer catches the bomb and flings it back at McGregor, killing him.
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Timeline-191 / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Timeline-191 / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Hipolito Rodriguez. A humble Mexican farmer and Freedom Party supporter from Confederate Sonora, Rodriguez ends up as a guard at Camp Determination. Faced with the horrible realisation that the blacks he's been feeding into the gas chambers are not enemies of the Confederacy, but actual human beings, he ends up eating his gun. This is stated to be a common occurrence at the camp.
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Timeline-191 / int_959f08aa	type	Vetinari Job Security
Timeline-191 / int_959f08aa	comment	Vetinari Job Security: In accordance with his status as a Hitler expy, Featherston is able to seize control of the Freedom Party by threatening to resign and challenging them to see how far they get without him.
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Timeline-191 / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Timeline-191 / int_97d97c28	comment	Arthur McGregor reluctantly tolerates the American occupation of Canada, until his son is killed by occupying authorities. Then he becomes obsessed with revenge.
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Timeline-191 / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Timeline-191 / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Turtledove often uses the characters to recap the alternate history and plots of the series by having characters engage in conversations or think to themselves about things that they would already know.
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Timeline-191 / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Timeline-191 / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Stonewall Jackson invites Frederick Douglass to eat with him in his tent after Douglass is taken prisoner by Confederate soldiers. They both expect the other to be the personification of evil, but are surprised to find that they have some things in common.
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Timeline-191 / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Timeline-191 / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Unlike the historical figure he was an Expy of, who chose to take the easy way out, Jake Featherston averted this at the end of the Second Great War. He tried to escape Virginia by air, hoping to get to Texas so he could fight to the bitter end. Instead, he was shot down over now-occupied Georgia (having just been "barreled" through by Morrell's army), where he was found by Black partisans and shot dead.
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Timeline-191 / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Timeline-191 / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: Jake Featherston is the thirteenth president of the CSA.
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Timeline-191 / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Timeline-191 / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The USA goes from being a militarily feeble country with horribly incompetent Generals and unorganized military to being an industrial and military giant who takes down The Confederate States, Great Britain, and France at the same time (though Germany is doing a lot to keep Great Britain and France occupied).
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Timeline-191 / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Timeline-191 / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Although his viewpoint chapters admit that he respects Custer, Abner Dowling thinks nonetheless thinks he's a senile old fool who ought to be replaced by Pershing or Morrell. Dowling sees himself this way as well. In reality, he's considered by his Confederate counterparts as a formidable threat, able to improvise when the USA's lack of preparedness for the Second Great War rears its head and he is forced to make a fighting retreat through Ohio. Dowling has benefitted from years of experience covering for Custer's missteps. And for that matter, Custer, for all his deficiencies as a general, was a good professional mentor, and he did get a few things right. Chinese Gordon (who is never encountered directly, but is glimpsed from afar during Custer and Roosevelt's skirmish with the British on the Canadian border during the 1882 war) is regarded by his opponents with bafflement for his attempts to use lancers on horseback against Custer's Gatling gun emplacement. Pretty much Featherston's view of the entire Confederate general staff.
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Timeline-191 / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
Timeline-191 / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Hoo boy. The black Marxists massacre, burn, and rape their way across much of the CSA, including implied genocide on the part of the Black Belt Socialist Republic. The Mormons are hardly saints themselves.
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Timeline-191 / int_a1bc812	type	Smash the Symbol
Timeline-191 / int_a1bc812	comment	Smash the Symbol: One of the two cities the U.S. drops it's first superbombs on is Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston being the symbolic birthplace of the Confederacy due it being located in South Carolina (the first state to secede) and where the first shots of the War of Secession were fired at Fort Sumter. Signalling the U.S.'s intention to finally end the Confederacy.
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Timeline-191 / int_a3746dc1	type	Different States of America
Timeline-191 / int_a3746dc1	comment	Different States of America: The United States lost the Civil War and the Confederate states are their own country.
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Timeline-191 / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
Timeline-191 / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: The Freedom Party "Stalwarts" and Oswald Mosley's "Silver Shirts".
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Timeline-191 / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
Timeline-191 / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Played straight and mildly subverted, with Jake Featherston being a rare Celibate Villain. There's a couple of throwaway lines when he's campaigning about how he will sometimes bring a supporter back over later, but once he takes power, the trope holds.
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Timeline-191 / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Timeline-191 / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: George Patton, who's so obsessed with pursuing the enemy that he doesn't care if his troops are exhausted, demoralized to the point of mutiny, or too far ahead of their supply lines.
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Timeline-191 / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Timeline-191 / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Often discussed near the end of the series by U.S characters, since basically every Confederate down to civilians had at least a strong inkling of what was happening to the Negro population and did nothing, and just how far the legal prosecution should stretch. Abell tacitly admits when asked that a number of CSA figures who can't be tried for crimes against humanity are going to, or already have, suffer some unfortunate "accidents", to which Dowling can't argue with when in return asked if they really deserve to live. Clarence Potter. He ran the Confederate intelligence agency through WWII, knew about the genocide and did nothing, and set off a nuclear bomb in Philadelphia, and yet is allowed to peacefully retire at the end of the series. As a nation, Imperial Japan. They're the only major power that doesn't get nuked in World War II, they betrayed their British and Russian allies, and they're left to rape and conquer most of East Asia because the USA is too concerned with its own North American concerns to give a crap about Japan other than making sure they don't attack the US's Pacific assets. The Ottoman Empire is another nation that escapes karmic justice, as they're never called to account for the Armenian genocide. Their alliance with the victorious Central Powers (including Imperial Germany and the United States) and the fact that the remaining major powers are either too battered by the First Great War to do more than field a limp protest (or, in the case of Japan, completely apathetic regarding the situation) has a lot to do with this.
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Timeline-191 / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Timeline-191 / int_a8559a9f	comment	The 'Empire' of Mexico has ceded large amounts of territory to both the CSA and USA over the course of the series, covers much less territory than Mexico in Real Life, and tends to do whatever the CSA 'politely requests'.
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Timeline-191 / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Timeline-191 / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: And not a very pleasant one either (considering a lot more countries end up being militaristic superpowers armed to the teeth or become battlefields of the various post-ACW conflicts). It ends in a full-on atomic war, with bombs going off everywhere. (Except Japan, ironically enough.) To wit: Philadelphia was the first city nuked, by a bomb driven into the city on a truck by Confederate infiltrators. Newport News (near Richmond) and Charleston, both by the USA; the former as an attempt to assassinate Jake Featherston (Hitler-analogue) and the latter because it was one of the few Confederate cities not already completely destroyed or occupiednote as well as for symbolic vengeance against South Carolina for being the first state to originally secede from the Union. The Germans went on a huge spree, nuking Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Paris, London, Norwich, and Brighton, the last three as retaliation for the British nuking Hamburg. Aside from Hamburg, the British also dropped another bomb, probably intended for Berlin, but the plane carrying it was shot down and the bomb fizzled in Belgium instead. A very minor case from The Victorious Opposition. Jonathan Moss mentions buying a Model D Ford in 1933, in part because it was common on his block. Ford never made a Model D. By the date, it would likely correspond to a Model A Ford (1927-31) or possibly a Model B (32-34).
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Timeline-191 / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
Timeline-191 / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language and American Accents: The differences in accents and regionalisms is discussed a few times. Clarence Potter runs the Confederacy's spying operations in World War II and mostly recruits people who lived or were educated up North (like himself) and thus don't have Southern accents. In another segment, two Confederate POWs are planning an escape, and one teaches the other some Northern turns of phrase ("carrying a bucket" versus "toting a pail") to help blend in after they break out.
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Timeline-191 / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Timeline-191 / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: Jake's solution to the Confederacy's "nigger problem" involves a genocide.
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Timeline-191 / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Timeline-191 / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Several characters comment on the word "swell" replacing "bully". In a more subtle example, Confederates are often referred to as rebs/Rebels/Johnny Reb up through the end of the Great War, but the term falls almost entirely out of use afterwards, while Northerners remain "damnyankees" right up to the end.
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Timeline-191 / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Timeline-191 / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The issue of women working outside the home is addressed in the Great War trilogy, with people who oppose this being more than sexist caricatures who want to "keep women in their place". In American Front, it is revealed that, if a married woman works outside the home, society will assume that her husband is a deadbeat who isn't good enough to provide for his family the way he should. Furthermore, in the absence of laws against sexual harassment, women who work outside the home are vulnerable to unwanted sexual advances. Specifically, Sylvia, who has to work outside the home, refuses the advances of her boss and subsequently faces retaliation, ultimately needing to find a new job. Her colleague, Isabella, gives in to these advances and becomes pregnant. In a later novel, it is revealed that the boss dumped her and she was driven to prostitution.
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Timeline-191 / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
Timeline-191 / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Ironically thanks to the invention of the superbomb, there are signs that the world will turn out for the better in the future. Much like in OTL, the rampant use of superbombings has caused nations that have superbombs to be weary of deploying them, while those who don't have superbombs are more willing to fall in line lest they wind up with their equivalents of London, Hamburg, Paris, Philadelphia or Charleston. Alongside is the ratification of the Dewey Doctrine, in which the US, alongside Germany, will police the world to ensure that superbomb technology does not spread, all the while a growing focus on rebuilding is spreading amongst the nations. Overall, the end of the Second Great War is just as hopeful as the end of our World War II, perhaps even more so as the Soviet Union and accompanying Red Scare do not exist.
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Timeline-191 / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Timeline-191 / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: Irving Morrell, once he's promoted that far.
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Timeline-191 / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Timeline-191 / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Realizing how brilliant a tactician Irving Morrell is, the Confederacy attempts to assassinate him. However, this only serves to make the United States military realize how much of a threat he is regarded as, and he gets promoted as a result, making him an even more dangerous force.
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Timeline-191 / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Timeline-191 / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Despite eighty years as a sovereign nation, it looks like the Confederacy's fate is to once again become part of the United States of America.
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Timeline-191 / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Timeline-191 / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Jefferson Pinkard, basically the Confederacy's version of Adolf Eichmann, genuinely loves his wife and children, to the point where he worries what will happen to them if they lose the war. Quite common with actual Nazi prison guards. Quite a change from his first wife...
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Timeline-191 / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Timeline-191 / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Timeline-191 is basically European history of the 19th and 20th century MOVED TO AMERICA ! Featherston is Hitler, Louisiana and it's Huey Long regime is akin to the "Austrofascism" regime in Austria before Anschluss, Houston(a state carved from the western portion of Texas)/Kentucky/Sequoyah suffers a fate identical to Sudetenland/Czechoslovakia, Irwing Morrell is an American Captain Ersatz of Erwin Rommel and the Battle of Pittsburgh becomes the equivalent of our Battle of Stalingrad. Blacks, Mormons and Indians become the equivalent of Jews, Slavs, Roma and other nationalities that died in our world's Holocaust. It may not be particularly inspired, but it works well both as a story and as a Historical In-Joke. The only real outliers are the fate of Canada, which is occupied by the United States at the end of World War I, and American politics, which are far too soft and democratic (albeit increasingly left-wing after World War I) to make a meaningful parallel to the Soviet Union. Still, the Confederate invasion of the United States in 1941 strongly parallels, militarily, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, though the geography is tremendously compressed (Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania compared to the whole of Europe east of Warsaw) and the United States is somewhat more prepared.
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Timeline-191 / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
Timeline-191 / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Several characters are parallels of famous figures from our own history, most notably Irving Morrell (Erwin Rommel) and Jake Featherston (Adolf Hitler). Flora Blackford, a.k.a. American Rosa Luxemburg with some Eleanor Roosevelt thrown in. Don Partridge fills the same role as Karl Donitz, who signed Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. His name, though, is a reference to Dan Quayle, and he's just about as bland. In-universe, the most popular comic book in the Confederacy is "Hyperman", a thinly-disguised Captain Ersatz of Superman who was specifically created by the Confederates because they didn't want kids reading Superman comics, where he fights the evil Confederates.
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Timeline-191 / int_b23a7eee	type	Celebrity Casualty
Timeline-191 / int_b23a7eee	comment	Celebrity Casualty: In Drive to the East, Jimmy Carter is an 18-year-old sailor in the Confederate States Navy and is killed while on leave when black guerillas and escaped POWs attack his hometown.
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Timeline-191 / int_b3d1b7e3	type	Genius Bonus
Timeline-191 / int_b3d1b7e3	comment	The Panzershreck-like rocket launchers used by the CS army in the Second Great War are called "Stove Pipes".note Doubles as a Genius Bonus, as "stove pipe" - or rather, "ofenrohr" - was an actual nickname for the Panzershreck.
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Timeline-191 / int_b408c009	type	City of Adventure
Timeline-191 / int_b408c009	comment	City of Adventure: Covington, Kentucky manages to become this by changing hands four times over the course of the series (and being the source of much intrigue from all sides in the interim).
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Timeline-191 / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Timeline-191 / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: Clarence Potter telling a Confederate soldier - who's as angry and disgruntled about having lost the second war as Jake Featherston was after the first war - to move on and accept the loss of the war, the way he never did with Featherston.
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Timeline-191 / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
Timeline-191 / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: Or should we say Featherston Fizz? Used by Confederate die-hards in territory annexed by the US at the end of the Great War.
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Timeline-191 / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Timeline-191 / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Besides the Real Life European one between Germany and the Allies, there's also the main one between the USA & CSA, with each side winning a war and the losing side becoming dominated by a culture that aims to get revenge in the next war.
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Timeline-191 / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Timeline-191 / int_b7248073	comment	Clarence Potter, who ends up as the Confederate Army's Head of Intelligence and masterminds the near-destruction of Philadelphia with a nuclear weapon. He's also somewhat aware of what's going on at Camp Determination. Despite all this, it's easy to sympathise with him, as Potter is clearly My Country, Right or Wrong. He even attempts to assassinate Featherston!
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Timeline-191 / int_b8d3f642	type	Illegal Religion
Timeline-191 / int_b8d3f642	comment	Illegal Religion: The US government faces rebellions from the Mormons of Utah during every war they fight with the CSA, with the Union Army crushing the rebels each time. This mirrors the real-life conflicts of the Mormons with the USA, and The Troubles. It's sparked by the federal government cracking down on their polygamy in 1881.
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Timeline-191 / int_bad22526	type	What If?
Timeline-191 / int_bad22526	comment	What If?: What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?
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Timeline-191 / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Timeline-191 / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The USS Remembrance, the world's first aircraft carrier. Cover art makes her look like a ''Yorktown''-class aircraft carrier, while it's in-story description describes it as being built from a battlecruiser that had it's construction halted midway, then had a flight deck and an "island" built on upon it, while retaining 5-inch guns in sponsons below the flight deck, which suggests it being more akin to the ''Lexington''-class aircraft carrier. After that there's the USS Josephus Daniels. While she's "only" a destroyer escort (otherwise known as a frigate), the Josephus Daniels (she's always referred to by her full name, even by her own crew) proves to be the Little Ship That Could throughout the Second Great War, performing various missions that range from interdiction to courier service for superbomb schematics. It helps that her captain is a POV character.
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Timeline-191 / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Timeline-191 / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: The Freedom Party Stalwarts, which parallel the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA). The Freedom Party Guards, which are based of both the SS, and the Waffen-SS, due to being outside the military chain of command, their own ranking system and that they originally served as the dictator's bodyguards, then replacing the Party's original paramilitary wing, before expanding to become a military branch in their own right. The Freedom Youth Corps is essentially the Freedom Party's version of the Hitler Youth. The Confederate Veterans Brigade, and the National Assault Force, both serve the function of the Volkssturm. An official newspaper of the Confederate States Army is named the Armored Bear, which translates in German as Der Panzerbär. A rather unusual and amusing subversion in general. Almost everything about the CSA's Freedom Party is modelled after the Nazis - except the CS Army uniforms, which resemble those worn by our timeline's US troops during World War II. The uniforms and equipment of TL-191 Confederates in the Great War are also clearly based off of the ones of their traditional allies, the British and French: Tanks suspiciously similar to British WWI ones, the French 75 mm cannon, etc. The small arms, especially during WWI, are implied to be license-built versions of British and French ones, or their knockoffs. Ironically, the uniforms of the US forces resemble WWI and WWII German ones (Stalhelms, high boots, gas masks), since The Union had a long-standing alliance with Imperial Germany after The American Civil War (to the point of almost hero worship of the German Empire). The WWI US tanks are pretty clearly German A7Vs. Aircraft and armoured vehicles from WWII show a more American bent in their design, but still have some similarities to our history's German WWII tech. As for the Germans themselves, Germany is still under the Kaiser even by the end of the series.
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Timeline-191 / int_c1fffb62	type	Industrialized Evil
Timeline-191 / int_c1fffb62	comment	Industrialized Evil: The Confederacy under Featherston is industrial evil on the scale of Nazi Germany, using the most modern and efficient practices to exterminate the African-American populace.
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Timeline-191 / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Timeline-191 / int_c2288824	comment	The Victorious Opposition (which is mainly about the rise of the A Nazi by Any Other Name Freedom Party to power) is a reference to the Devil's Dictionary, and the full quote forms the book's prefix:
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Timeline-191 / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Timeline-191 / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: The reason Scipio is able to escape from South Carolina to the relative safety of Georgia after the Marxist uprising. Because the Confederacy places heavy emphasis on state's rights, there is less cooperation between the Confederate states in law enforcement matters. Georgia is too busy tracking down its own black Marxists to worry about fugitives from another state, so any warrants from South Carolina don't carry a lot of weight and Anne Colleton doesn't have as many social contacts in Georgia with whom she can pull strings to expedite the issue.
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Timeline-191 / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Timeline-191 / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Downplayed example during the Second Great War portion of the series. The American and European Theaters are fairly separate from one another so when it comes to the North American theater it's "America Saves the Day" but in Europe it's "Germany saves the day".
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Timeline-191 / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Timeline-191 / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Four words: Mark Twain's sex scene.
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Timeline-191 / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
Timeline-191 / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: During the Second Great War, the Union gives Featherston the derogatory nickname "Jake the Snake" (or just "The Snake").
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Timeline-191 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Timeline-191 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The mayor of Atlanta during the Second Great War is one Clark Butler. Gone with the Wind gets another one when you consider that Anne Colleton and Roger Kimball play like a very dark version of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler. A medic assigned to work with Leonard O'Doull is named Vince Donofrio, a possible reference to actor Vincent D'Onofrio with the added bonus that both the fictional character and real life actor are musicians in their spare time. Jonathan Moss is a hotshot pilot who becomes a military attorney (partly due to age and partly due to the US drawing down forces) after the Second Great War, not unlike a certain TV military attorney...
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Timeline-191 / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
Timeline-191 / int_c91bf297	comment	Flora Hamburger's political career starts this way, although she does become an Iron Lady after being exposed to the inner circles of power.
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Timeline-191 / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Timeline-191 / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: In addition to the stated or implied participation in the numerous resistance and insurgency movements in the series, the Confederates have the 'National Assault Force', an analogue to the Volkssturm that like its real world counterpart utilized children, the elderly, and people otherwise unfit for military service as a last-ditch defense once the USA penetrated deep into their territory.
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Timeline-191 / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Timeline-191 / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Tanks are called "Barrels" in this universe. During the Great War, the U.S. General Staff wanted to use the tanks for support roles, but Armstrong Custer is the one who uses the barrels to great effect in the "Barrel Roll Offensive" when he gathered over 300 barrels into one force and used them to smash through Confederate trenches.
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Timeline-191 / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Timeline-191 / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Subclause "if not him, somebody else" — Jake Featherston is a genocidal dictator, only targeting black people in the American South rather than Jews in Europe. Ironically, Hitler also exists in this timeline relatively unchanged, except that he annoys those around him and has no power or influence.
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Timeline-191 / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Timeline-191 / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Turtledove's The Guns of the South. Both series share the basic premise of a Confederate victory in the American Civil War but in The Guns of the South it was on account of time-travelers trying to Make Wrong What Once Went Right while the series here has a far more mundane point of divergence with the Union never intercepting Lee's lost Special Order 191 dispatch. In addition, The Guns Of The South ends on a more hopeful note with the implication the United States and Confederacy will work more closely with one another along with better racial relations for blacks. While Tl-191 is a kickstart to an 80 year cycle of bitter and destructive war between the United States and Confederacy.
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Timeline-191 / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Timeline-191 / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Union soldier Boris Lavochkin of In At The Death is a psycho. And there's always Gordon McSweeney, to the point that some fans anticipated him becoming the Hitler-analogue if the US lost WWI. Almost every member of the Freedom Party Guard, given that they're pretty much the SS.
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Timeline-191 / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Timeline-191 / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Clarence Potter, who ends up as the Confederate Army's Head of Intelligence and masterminds the near-destruction of Philadelphia with a nuclear weapon. He's also somewhat aware of what's going on at Camp Determination. Despite all this, it's easy to sympathise with him, as Potter is clearly My Country, Right or Wrong. He even attempts to assassinate Featherston! Tom Colleton too. He's the most generic, normal guy in the series as a viewpoint character. Along with Potter and Dover, these three are the analog to Germans who weren't Nazis, but went along with the order of Germany. His death in Pittsburgh goes a long way towards changing the tone.
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Timeline-191 / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Timeline-191 / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: The Great War begins the same way it does it our world, despite nearly fifty years of completely divergent history before it. World War II also occurs on the same timeline it did in the real world, and under similar circumstance: a veteran of the Great War brings his political party to power, performs a blitzkreig attack against a neighboring country to kick off the war, and organizes a genocide against a portion of his own population. Several historical characters still crop up in similar positions to where they would have been: Winston Churchill is still born — despite having an American mother — and is Prime Minister during the Second Great War. Justified in that Churchill was born in 1874, while the animosity between the US and Britain doesn't start until 1881. It is strange that his being half-American never comes up though. Also justified in that Churchill probably didn't advertise his ancestry heavily given the hostility between the two countries. As a relentless self-promoter early in his career, Churchill would be unlikely to bring up anything that would jeopardize his prospects. He was also estranged from his parents in Real Life, and there's no reason to suspect that the family dynamics were altered by the changes in this timeline. George S. Patton is a Confederate general in this timeline; whether or not he's the same George S. Patton as in our timeline is a matter for debate, as the historical Patton's maternal grandfather settled in California (a US territory in TL-191) prior to the Civil Warnote Patton in Real Life was a California native, while his paternal grandfather remained in Virginia and fought for the Confederacy. In other words, TL-191 Patton is so awesome a character that he can survive even though his parents never met! Fidel Castro appears as a Cuban revolutionary, but he may not be the same Fidel Castro as in our timeline. Castro in our timeline was the son of a Spanish conscript soldier who was sent to put down the rebellion in Cuba in 1895...long after the CSA seized Cuba in TL-191 (sufficiently long, in fact, for the historical Castro's father still to have been a young boy well below conscription age). Lou Gehrig is still a premier athlete playing the most popular sport in the United States; however, in this timeline that sport happens to be American Football, rather than the Baseball he played in real life. Other real-life baseball players Hank Greenberg and Jimmie Foxx also make appearances playing football.
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Timeline-191 / int_d4a4771e	type	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman
Timeline-191 / int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: So many. Grand Duke Michael becomes Michael II of Russia after the death of his brother, Nicholas II. L. Frank Baum is a Union fighter pilot, and later becomes a children's author. John Wilkes Booth remained a popular stage actor until the 1880s. Jimmy Carter was an 18-year-old Confederate sailor who was killed by black rebels while on leave in 1942. Charles I remains Emperor of Austria-Hungary well into the 1940s. Winston Churchill still manages to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, but his authority is limited by the more powerful member of the coaltion government, Oswald Mosley. Churchill is ousted as Prime Minister after London, Norwich and Brighton are destroyed by superbombs, and Horace Wilson becomes Prime Minister. Samuel Clemens is a journalist in San Francisco. Calvin Coolidge ran for President in 1928 and 1932, winning in the latter. He died before he could be inaugurated,note Both the TL-191 and OTL versions of Coolidge died on January 5, 1933. and his running mate Herbert Hoover became President. George Custer never fought at Little Big Horn. Instead, he fought in Montana during the Second Mexican War, delivering one of the Union's few victories. In the Great War he was commander of the First Army in Tennessee, and was responsible for the breakthrough that ended the war. After the war he commanded the occupation forces in Canada and Utah before retiring. Due to the Nazis never rising to power, Albert Einstein remains in Germany and works on the German superbomb project. Ulysses S. Grant was a broken and poor old man, one of the few people who supported the plight of the blacks of North America. He died of complications from alcoholism. Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver in the Great War, where he suffered an injury that rendered him permanently impotentnote A character from one of Hemingway's novels has the same problem.. He co-wrote Sylvia Enos' novel and had an affair with her: this ended when, in a bout of depression, he accidentally shot and killed her. Horrified, he committed suicide in front of Sylvia before she succumbed to her wound. Adolf Hitler is a Sergeant in the German Army and an orderly to Heinz Guderian. While his hatred of Jews and Slavs is present here as in the real world, the changed history means he never rises to a position of authority. Stonewall Jackson became head of the Confederate General Staff and masterminded the Confederacy's victory in the Second Mexican War. Abraham Lincoln lost the 1864 presidential election and becomes a Socialist activist. Years later, he is remembered as one of the pivotal figures in the American Socialist Party (which itself becomes one half of the American bipartisan political system), but he's widely reviled for failing to stop the Confederates from spreading across the continent. George S. Patton was the greatest general in the Confederate Army, responsible for many of its victories in the Second Great War. When the tide of the war turned, he commanded much of the rearguard action. An avid supporter of the Freedom Party, he once attempted to shoot a soldier suffering from battle fatique, and was taken into custody at the end of the war. Franklin D. Roosevelt was Secretary of War in the Hoover administration and later Assistant Secretary of the Navy under two Socialist Administrations. He was also responsible for the the Union's superbomb project. Theodore Roosevelt led a volunteer cavalry regiment in the Second Mexican War, and was the US President from 1913-1921.note Interestingly, the cavalry unit in this book is actually made up of men on horseback. In Real Life, Roosevelt was the only member of his "cavalry" unit to have a horse. Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov somehow became the leaders of the Red forces in the Russian Civil War (despite both being virtual nobodies at that time IRL), which the Whites ultimately won. Louis Armstrong (named Sennacherib in TL-191) was leader of the popular band "Satchmo and the Rhythm Aces." During the Second Great War he was forced to play for Confederate troops and eventually escaped into Union territory. He brought the plight of the blacks to the Union government and later recorded propaganda for them. William Howard Taft was never elected President, instead serving as a Democractic Congressman. Kaiser Wilhelm II remained the German Emperor until his death in 1941. He was suceeded by his son, Friedrich Wilhelm V. Woodrow Wilson was president of the Confederate States from 1910 - 1916, and led the Confederacy during the early years of the Great War. Al Smith is elected U.S. President in 1936 and 1940. In 1936, he defeats Herbert Hoover, who defeated Smith in the 1928 election in real life. Harry Truman was elected Vice President in 1944, alongside running mate Thomas Dewey. Frederick Douglass is an aversion, as he's doing pretty much the same thing in How Few Remain as he was doing in real life. Various members of the Kennedy clan also offer an aversion, as they end up in the same roles during the Second Great War that the Kennedys of our timeline held in World War Two: JFK is a naval officer, Joseph Kennedy Jr. a pilot in one of Jonathan Moss's squadrons, etc. As with the historical Kennedys, the family is also politically powerful (Joseph Kennedy Sr. is still a Massachusetts political operative), able to arrange the early discharge of George Enos Jr. from the Navy. Ronald Reagan is a radio sportscaster, paralleling his real-life career at this point in history. Another aversion: Marion Morrison, who still plays war heroes in motion pictures. He is described as making "a first-rate TR." Elvis Presley as a young boy is wounded by US troops while participating in the Confederate 'National Assault Force', an analogue to the Volkssturm. Nixon himself as noted above is a US Army specialist... in wiretapping and bugging rooms.note Nixon in reality served as a Navy logistics officer during World War Two, and saw no combat, although by his own admission he became (not surprisingly) a very good poker player during this period. He's joined by two soldiers named Carl and Bob (obvious references to Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal. However, the real Woodward and Bernstein were born in the 40s, so this is just for the sake of a joke. James Longstreet, a Confederate General in the Civil War, is President of the Confederacy in How Few Remain. A bald US general named Ironhewer accepts CS General George Patton's surrender. In real life Eisenhower and Patton were friends and colleagues. Fidel Castro appears in The Grapple as a 16-year-old kid who is part of the underground resistance in Confederate Cuba, opposing the Freedom Party. Sam Carsten, who commands the ship smuggling guns, ammo and supplies into Cuba, is told that despite his young age and being white (unlike his black comrades), Fidel was clearly the one in charge. Lou Gehrig is a well-paid football player who, when asked how he feels about having a higher salary than the president of the United States, cracks, "I had a better year than he did." In RL Gehrig was a baseball star, and that line was spoken by his teammate Babe Ruth. Shel Silverstein is a surgeon in the United States Army, who operated on Irving Morrell after the attempted assassination on his life. In real life Shel Silverstein was a Korean War veteran, not a World War II veteran.
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Timeline-191 / int_da163a71	comment	Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Inverted. Because the Battle of Little Bighorn did not take place in this universe, Custer rose to prominence in the Second Mexican War by providing the USA with its only conclusive victory. He actually got a chance to cash in on his fame by getting promoted to Brigadier General, and we get introduced to an alternate version of him who lives to serve in World War I. A far cry from the grizzled, Indian-fighting badass of legend, this Custer is a broken down, overweight old man who's dangerously out of touch with the harsh realities of modern warfare, getting soldiers killed left and right with nothing to show for it. Then played straight when his Attack! Attack! Attack! tendencies turn out to be the correct strategy for using barrels (tanks).
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Timeline-191 / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Anne Colleton is forced into the role during the Red Negro uprising in the First Great War.
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Timeline-191 / int_dc7c48c6	type	Historical Downgrade
Timeline-191 / int_dc7c48c6	comment	Historical Downgrade: The Adolph Hitler in this timeline seems identical to real-life except that he's viewed as annoying and wields no power or influence.
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Timeline-191 / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Jefferson Pinkard begins the series as a decent, hard-working man who loves his wife and bears no hatred towards blacks despite the atmosphere of the CSA at the time. It all starts going downhill after he catches his wife cheating on him with his next-door neighbor, which is what starts turning him bitter and cynical. After the Great War, he gets involved with the Freedom Party, and the distance causes his wife to cheat again, at which point he literally throws her out and dedicates himself wholly to the Party, eventually becoming the series' analogue of Eichmann. As mentioned above, Jake Featherston's occurs when he hits a glass ceiling after being inconveniently right about his superior officer's black servant being a spy. Arthur McGregor reluctantly tolerates the American occupation of Canada, until his son is killed by occupying authorities. Then he becomes obsessed with revenge.
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Timeline-191 / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Timeline-191 / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: George Armstrong Custer, of the "lucky idiot" variety. General George Patton, by virtue of the fact that his talents are now being used in support of the genocidal Featherston regime.
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Timeline-191 / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Jake Featherston, Clarence Potter, Jefferson Pinkard, and the rest of the Freedom Party elite.
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Timeline-191 / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
Timeline-191 / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: Thanks to Turtledove's fondness for Jewish characters.
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Timeline-191 / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Lulu to Jake. She's the only person he's even remotely pleasant to.
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Timeline-191 / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Timeline-191 / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Well, naturally, the most obvious of these is Jake Featherston, being an expy of Adolf Hitler. The Statue of Liberty's counterpart in this universe is the Statue of Remembrance, a gift from Germany to the United States. Visually, the only difference is that she holds a sword and shield in the place of the Statue of Liberty's torch and tablet of law, respectively. The statue is a symbol of the the US desire for vengeance against the CSA, Britain, and France. Mainly of our timeline's military equipment. One example is the Confederate airforce's "Asskicker" dive bomber plane, which is largely analogous to the the German Stuka. However, most vehicles and weaponry go unnamed, aside from technical descriptions like the caliber of tank guns. 'Daniel' MacArthur is almost identical to the original timeline's Douglas MacArthur in temperament and professional skill. The only real difference is the use of a cigarette holder instead of a corncob pipe. Irving Morrell is a pretty clear analog of Erwin Rommel, with a bit of Heinz Guderian thrown in for fun. Morrell also conducts Sherman's March 80 years later, being one of the last movements of the Second Great War in 1944 as they surrounded the Confederate government.
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Timeline-191 / int_e545d293	comment	The phrase "It never even crossed his mind that..." or variations thereof shows up a lot to demonstrate some form of hypocrisy on the part of the viewpoint characters. Possible example of Narm, depending on your point of view.
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Timeline-191 / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The civil war is "The War of Secession" in this timeline.
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Timeline-191 / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: He generally manages to avert it, but there's one significant instance in the middle of the Settling Accounts arc when Featherston considers how the war has progressed in Europe almost as if he's narrating a story.
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Timeline-191 / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
Timeline-191 / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Played straight, with Emily Pinkard. Played with, with George Enos.
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Timeline-191 / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Timeline-191 / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Confederate blacks do not use, and are not permitted, surnames. When Kentucky becomes a U.S. state after the Great War, its black residents are instructed to choose surnames. They choose names which have meaning to them: Cincinnatus becomes "Driver" for his profession; while Apicius chooses "Wood" for an important component in his legendary barbecue. Cincinnatus and some others recognize the simple existence of their new surnames as granting them greater human dignity.
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Timeline-191 / int_e7f67516	type	Point of Divergence
Timeline-191 / int_e7f67516	comment	Point of Divergence: In our timeline, the Union army recovered a lost order outlining Confederate troop movements; this gave them an advantage that helped turn the tide of the war. In Timeline 191, the order was never recovered; the Union subsequently lost the war and the CSA remained a separate country.
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Timeline-191 / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
Timeline-191 / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in the case of the USA. It eventually morphs into a Culture Chop Suey of the Union and Imperial Germany...and is led by German-style social democrats! Now that's what I call an Alternate Universe... Not to mention the British and French becoming fascists and an equivalent of WWII Italy and Japan. And Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary and Imperial Germany becoming more liberal and turning into a thinly-veiled Expy of our world's inter-war USA and Canada.
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Timeline-191 / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
Timeline-191 / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: It's not uncommon for characters to disappear for a hundred pages before reappearing.
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Timeline-191 / int_eb2eb10f	type	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Timeline-191 / int_eb2eb10f	comment	Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Several times. In OTL Berlin, Ontario, was renamed Kitchener (after Lord Kitchener) during World War I. In TL-191 it is renamed Empire. After the US and Imperial Germany win the Great War, the US occupies Canada and restores the name Berlin. Hawaii is British-controlled until the Great War and is known as the Sandwich Islands. Roanoke, Virginia remaining Big Lick is a subversion of this trope. Big Lick is the city's original name. It was changed to Roanoke in 1882 (which, apparently, did not happen in the alternate timeline). Also, Oklahoma is Sequoyahnote the name proposed by the eastern counties of what is now Oklahoma during a failed bid for statehood in 1905—incidentally, it was an attempt by the Native Americans in the region to retain their sovereignty within the framework of the United States, and a section of Texas ceded to the USA in the aftermath of the Great War is renamed Houston (not to be confused with the city of the same name in the CSA).
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Timeline-191 / int_eb7a5313	type	Famous Ancestor
Timeline-191 / int_eb7a5313	comment	Famous Ancestor: Confederate Presidents Wade Hampton V and Burton Mitchel are the respective grandsons of Senators Wade Hampton III and Charles Mitchel.
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Timeline-191 / int_ebe5d89c	type	Disco Dan
Timeline-191 / int_ebe5d89c	comment	Custer could be a military version of Disco Dan, as he appears to openly hate any military innovations introduced after his graduation from West Point in 1861. He nonetheless uses state-of-the-art military technology (massed Gatling guns) to earn the USA's sole victory in the Second Mexican War in How Few Remain. He does it again with massed barrels during the First Great War.
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Timeline-191 / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Timeline-191 / int_f2877d9e	comment	Roger Kimball's raids on New York harbor and Chesapeake Bay are littoral examples of the trope.
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Timeline-191 / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Timeline-191 / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: General Custer's standard tactic is send waves of men into battle, which generally gets a lot of them killed with little benefit. When he sees the newly invented barrels, his immediate instinct is to mass a few hundred and throw them at a single point to force a breakthrough. This is dismissed by his higher-ups, who prefer to cautiously spread them along the entire front. It turns out that Custer's strategy is very effective for tanks, and results in one of the first breakthroughs of the war.
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Timeline-191 / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Timeline-191 / int_f3626b09	comment	Even Featherston gets a few moments with his secretary. That Mercy Kill hurts.
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Timeline-191 / int_f4379d92	type	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
Timeline-191 / int_f4379d92	comment	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Cincinnatus Driver, a lowly black truck driver in Kentucky, starts as an Action Survivor and ends up as a go-between for all sides (the USA, Confederates, and black Marxists) in the conflict during the First Great War, taking several levels in badass in the process. He eventually becomes a US auxiliary despite being in his fifties during the Second Great War. The man even had Teddy Roosevelt order the head of the Kentucky State (read: secret) Police to release him and pay him $100 (in 1920) out of his own pocket at one point!
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Timeline-191 / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Timeline-191 / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The Union goes through a lot of hell throughout the series, from two crushing defeats to two more costly wars, one of which they were completely caught off guard for and were nuked. Despite this, by the end of the end of In At The Death, the United States stands as one of the three most powerful countries in the world (the other two being Imperial Japan and Imperial Germany), has completely destroyed the Confederacy and have pushed the British and French (whose interference set the whole series into motion) out of the Americas.
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Timeline-191 / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Timeline-191 / int_f76842b1	comment	Union soldier Boris Lavochkin of In At The Death is a psycho. And there's always Gordon McSweeney, to the point that some fans anticipated him becoming the Hitler-analogue if the US lost WWI.
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Timeline-191 / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Timeline-191 / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: Return Engagement and most of Drive to the East would be this for the U.S. during the Second Great War. Al Smith is killed in an air bombing by the Confederacy, the U.S. has been cut in two with the Confederacy overrunning Ohio, Irving Morrell has nearly been killed by an assassination attempt, and U.S. counter-offensives in Virgina against the Confederacy have completely failed.
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Timeline-191 / int_fa5699d9	type	Washington D.C. Invasion
Timeline-191 / int_fa5699d9	comment	Washington D.C. Invasion: In this timeline, Washington D.C. is just across the river from the CSA, easily within artillery range. Once The Great War starts, Confederate forces quickly overrun it, and occupy it throughout the war. It's actually because of fear of this trope that the US moved most of its government functions to Philadelphia, starting in the 1880s. DC is still officially the capitol, but only for ceremonial functions, such as Presidential inaugurations and state funerals.
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Timeline-191 / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Timeline-191 / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Sam Carsten has extremely fair skin, and burns easily - a bad trait for a sailor. As a result, he can often be seen slathering sunblock onto his skin, but it does little good - he still gets badly burnt. Forgotten all that? Don't worry, Sam will helpfully mention this every single time he makes an appearance. Multiply this by fifty other characters, and soon enough a 450 page book becomes a 500 page book. Justified in that when he didn't do this in How Few Remain, people apparently lost track of who was who. And that was a book where nearly all the major characters were real historical figures.
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Timeline-191 / int_fdbb6993	type	Ridiculous Future Inflation
Timeline-191 / int_fdbb6993	comment	Ridiculous Future Inflation: In the Confederacy following the Great War, in a direct parallel to Weimar Germany.
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Timeline-191 / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Timeline-191 / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: General Custer's preferred method of winning battles. Nightmarishly wrong once trench warfare becomes predominant, though ironically it's Custer that ends up winning the war - just replace "soldiers" with "barrels"!
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Timeline-191 / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Jefferson Pinkard, basically the Confederacy's version of Adolf Eichmann, genuinely loves his wife and children, to the point where he worries what will happen to them if they lose the war. Quite common with actual Nazi prison guards. Quite a change from his first wife... Even Featherston gets a few moments with his secretary. That Mercy Kill hurts. Anne Colleton intercedes on behalf of Sylvia Enos before a Confederate court, despite Sylvia being from an enemy country and a much lower social class. Sylvia was in the dock for having shot Roger Kimball to avenge her dead husband, who was aboard a ship Kimball had sunk after the First Great War had ended. Given that Kimball had earlier tried to rape Anne, a little Laser-Guided Karma was at play here.
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Timeline-191 / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Timeline-191 / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In addition to being a novelist, Turtledove is also a history Ph.D.
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Timeline-191	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Point of Divergence / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	President Evil / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Real Men Love Jesus / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Released to Elsewhere / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Retired Monster / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Ridiculous Exchange Rates / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Ridiculous Future Inflation / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Switching P.O.V. / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Tanks, but No Tanks / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	The Scrounger / int_2754c6fb
Timeline191	seeAlso	Timeline-191
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Urban Warfare / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Vice President Who? / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Washington D.C. Invasion / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Works Set in World War I / int_2754c6fb
Timeline-191	hasFeature	Anonymous Ringer / int_2754c6fb

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