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2 unusual facts about American Empire: Blood and Iron


American Empire: Blood and Iron

American Empire: Blood and Iron is the first book of the American Empire trilogy of alternate history fiction novels by Harry Turtledove.

Blood and Iron covers events directly following the closing events of The Great War: Breakthroughs.


American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold is the second book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove.

During this era in Turtledove's Southern Victory Series world, the Confederate States of America, stretching from Sonora to Virginia, is led by Whigs (with fascists gaining more and more power) while the United States of America (which has been occupying Canada) is controlled by socialists.

Much like Adolf Hitler and his rise to power in real-life 1930s Germany, an antagonist named Jake Featherston rides a fascist wave to power in this desperate Confederacy of the Great Depression.

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition

Featherston is still not satisfied, and wants more territory that the U.S. had taken in 1917 (Sequoyah, and parts of Sonora, Virginia, and Arkansas).

American Empire: The Victorious Opposition is the third and final book in the American Empire alternate history series by Harry Turtledove, and the seventh in the Southern Victory Series of books.

Democratic empire

Example of empires that have been described in this way are the British Empire and the United States of America based on some of its foreign affairs history (see American Empire).

Hellboy: Blood and Iron

He is practically indestructible but is severely wounded during his fight with the evil goddess Hecate.

Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second in the Hellboy Animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola.

Hecate (Cree Summer): From the mythological goddess of witchcraft and sorcery, Hecate spends much of her time questioning why the powerful demon king's son Hellboy chooses to live in the world of men.

She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, and had just kidnapped the fiancee of one of the townsmen.

Kate Corrigan

Kate also appeared in the sequel Hellboy: Blood and Iron but had a much smaller role and only briefed the agents on their mission.


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