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Review:"Non-lethal weapons" may sound like an oxymoron, or something found only on Alice in Wonderland battlefields. In reality, however,
they are important security tools for armies and law enforcement officials (think tasers and tear gas). Author John Alexander
describes all the justifications for non-lethal weapons: they come in handy during peacekeeping operations, help combat terrorism,
and head off revenge before it is sought. ("They thank you when they wake up and they're not dead," a Las Vegas cop tells
Alexander.) The most fascinating parts of Future War, however, are the descriptions of cutting-edge weapons. The sticky foam gun,
for example, immobil...
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Review:Harry Turtledove marches on through history with The Great War: Walk in Hell. In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of
America won the Civil War, aided by Britain and France. In the 1880s (How Few Remain), Americans fought again after the CSA
acquired parts of Mexico--and the CSA won again. When WWI begins with Archduke Ferdinand's assassination in 1914 (The Great
War: American Front), the 34-state USA under Teddy Roosevelt allies with Imperial Germany and Austria against Britain, France,
Russia, Japan, Canada, and Woodrow Wilson's CSA. Trenches divide Canada, fierce fighting rages from Tennessee and Kentucky
into Pennsylvania, a Mormon upr...
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Review:Harry Turtledove's second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," How Few Remain, takes place in a world in which
the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against the United States once
more. All the horrors of World War I, such as trench warfare and mustard gas, are present, only this time they're situated in a North
American theater of operations where the U.S. fights enemies on both its northern and southern borders while Confederate blacks,
studying up on left-wing radicals Karl Marx and Abe Lincoln, prepare for the revolution. As in Turtledove's earlier Worldwar series, the
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