Talk:Settling Accounts: The Grapple

Possible Situations

If you go to Turtledove's offical website, you can then link into a site that shows the book covers of the novels he has writen. The book for The Grapple has a bridge on it, and I seem to recall an event in WWII, though I can't think of what it was. Could this be a clue? Anyone have a guess? -SAS- 16 Feb 2006 EST

It would make sense if this were an analogue of Operation Market Garden, ie the disastrous airborne operation to take the bridge in Arnhem. Suitably fitting with the origin of the series, Jerry got his hands on some rather detailed operational info while it was underway. This goes well with the other references that remind us America didn't exactly fight and win WW2 on its own - 'operation redbeard' being on the same date as Operation Barbarossa, for starters. - An Australian 8 May 2006 local

On the bridge photo, it would make a lot of sense if there's a battle anywhere along either the Ohio or Mississippi River. 199.181.178.37 16:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Verification sources

I noticed a question about verification in the history of this article. The main plot's sentence source appears to be from the review of "Settling Accounts: The Grapple" that is found on Turtledove's website. On the subplots mentioned; it's kind of obvious from the end of the previous book that at least for a chapter are those that will be going on. Also based on the end of the previous book I'd expect one of POV characters listed to die in either chapter one or two and the other not to last much longer. Jon 20:50, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Still speculative, though. --Stlemur 22:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]