By Harry Turtledove

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In a rare saga of countries locked in warfare, grasp storyteller Harry Turtledove tells the tale of global conflict II, which starts off over Czechoslovakia instead of Poland, 11 months just before it relatively got here. we have the ultimate installment in Turtledove's landmark international struggle II series.

Hitler's Plan A used to be to win in a rush, awesome difficult and deep into France. there has been no Plan B. Now the battle grinds on. international locations were pressured into unusual alliances. The Nazis enhance skinny strains with Hungarian and Romanian troops. England, discovering its footing after the suspicious demise of Winston Churchill and a coup d'état, fights again in Europe and at the seas of the North Atlantic. Jews struggle on each side of the war--in mystery in German uniform, overtly in Spain, France, and Russia. Into the standoff come new killing instruments, from tanks to bazookas. within the Pacific, Japan prepares bombs full of macabre organic concoctions to be dropped on Hawaii.

For the united states, the single enemy is Japan, as there was no casus belli for the US in Europe. Then Hitler turns into determined and pronounces battle at the usa. yet is it too overdue? His personal individuals are emerging up in rebel. The German army can have to place down the violence, perhaps even bomb its personal cities.

In this epic drama, genuine women and men are formed via the carnage, and their person acts in flip form history.

Drawing at the gritty, own fact of conflict and on a forged of unforgettable characters, Harry Turtledove has written an alternative historical past that intrigues, fascinates, and astounds.

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They were back in Oxford, living near a factory, and he hoped there were no bombing raids that night. Beside Howard sat Lieutenant Den Brotheridge, whose wife was pregnant and due to deliver any day (five other men in the company had pregnant wives back in England). Howard had talked Brotheridge into joining the Ox and Bucks, and had selected his platoon for the no. 1 glider because he thought Brotheridge and his platoon about the best in his company. Another reason was that they were mostly Londoners like himself.

The pilot, twenty-four-year-old Staff Sergeant Jim Wall-work, of the Glider Pilot Regiment, anticipated casting off any second now that he had seen the surf breaking over the Norman coast. Beside him his co-pilot, Staff Sergeant John Ainsworth, was concentrating intensely on his stop watch. ' Howard suffered from air sickness and had vomited on every training flight. This flight, however, was an exception. Like his men, he had not been in combat before, but the prospect seemed to calm him more than it shook him.

Gale decided to drop his division east of the Orne River, about five to seven miles inland, in the low ground between the Orne and the River Dives. The main body would gather in and around the village of Ranville, and would guard the bridges over the Orne Canal and River. Specially-trained companies would capture and destroy the four bridges over the River Dives, then fall back on Ranville; others would destroy the German battery at Merville. Central to Gale's plan was taking and holding the bridges over the Orne waterways, without which the 6th Airborne would be unable to receive tanks, trucks, and other equipment from the beaches.

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