Praise for Harry Turtledove “Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”-USA Today Last Orders “All quite plausible. And on a planet under siege, the sounds and sites of nuclear bombs become a grim harbinger of a new reality: the struggle to survive man’s greatest madness.
Fallout (The Hot War #2) by Harry Turtledove A dark out look to what possibly could have been, Harry Turtledove, a modern day spinner of What. “This is what alternative history is all about.Newsgroup: -turtledove Turtlewiki Maintained by Steven H Silver Thanks to for webspace. “A you-are-there chronicle of battle on land and sea and in the air.”-Tor.com Armchair warriors will have much to ponder.” -Kirkus Reviews Turtledove’s focus on the characters serves to fill out the big picture with patient, nitty-gritty detail. “Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”-USA Today Strategic strikes lead to massive movements of ground troops. For them, as well as Truman, Mao, and Stalin, the whole world has become a battleground. The fateful global drama plays out through the experiences of ordinary people-from a British barmaid to a Ukrainian war veteran to a desperate American soldier alone behind enemy lines in Korea. Will they attack each other directly with nukes? And what countries will be caught in between? And as the shock waves are settling, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying face-off. And the miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia’s reaction.Īlmost instantly, Stalin strikes U.S. In actual history, Truman rejected his general’s advice.
MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. The only way to stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. military has been cut to the bone after victory over the Nazis-while China and the U.S.S.R. Now, this masterful storyteller turns his eyes to the aftermath of World War II and asks: In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War suddenly turned hot?īombs Away begins with President Harry Truman heeding the advice of General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. In his acclaimed novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has scrutinized the twisted soul of the twentieth century, from the forces that set World War I in motion to the rise of fascism in the decades that followed.
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