Has anybody else read this epic series, now at 18 books (not counting The Rage of Allah spinoff series) with one more due to come? It's a fine work of AH, I must say, mostly due to the author's dedication and consistency, as well as the sheer size of the books, some of which are in multiple volumes.
PoD seems to be the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 failing, which leads to Austria not uniting Germany at the Frankfurt Convention. Germany gets united anyway, but the result is decades of war...
I must say, the author must be some sort of Germanophobe, given by how ridiculously evil they are in the Second Great War sub-series. Also, the books get more boring as time goes by, with far more attention given to ATL pop culture and politics than the action that dominated the previous ones. Here's a list of all the 1848 books and subseries for those that want to read them:
The mainline series, listed by sub-series and date in-universe:
PoD seems to be the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 failing, which leads to Austria not uniting Germany at the Frankfurt Convention. Germany gets united anyway, but the result is decades of war...
I must say, the author must be some sort of Germanophobe, given by how ridiculously evil they are in the Second Great War sub-series. Also, the books get more boring as time goes by, with far more attention given to ATL pop culture and politics than the action that dominated the previous ones. Here's a list of all the 1848 books and subseries for those that want to read them:
The mainline series, listed by sub-series and date in-universe:
- A Failed Spring (Germany; 1848-1849)
- Empire of Eagles (France; 1850-1855)
- That Peculiar Institution (America; 1859-1861)
- Death or Glory (America; 1862)
- The Breaking Point (America; 1863)
- The Junker Kingdom (Germany; 1864)
- Last Chance (America; 1865)
- Was ist das deutschen Vaterland? (Germany; 1866)
- Lieb Vaterland, magst Ruhig Sein (Germany; 1870-1871)
- Appointment at Sarajevo (First Great War; 1914)
- Hell on Earth (First Great War; 1915-1916)
- Death to the Tsar! (Russia; 1917)
- War's End and Beginning (Germany; 1919/1939)
- A Phony War (Second Great War; 1940)
- The Evil That Men Do (Second Great War; 1942-1945)
- Kalterkrieg (Cold War; 1962/1983)
- Bundesrepublik (Cold War; 1989-1990)
- To the Moon (Cold War; 1969)
- God's Twilight (Second Great War; 1945)
- Towerfall (2001)
- Graveyard of Empires (2002)
- Alas, Babylon (2003)
- COIN (2008)
- Sic Semper Tyrannis (due early 2011)