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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:On the eve of America�??s greatest victory in the Pacific, a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll�??and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war. Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor�??led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance�??have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they�??ve never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada�??s awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable. Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves�??by their very presence�??have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip�??and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese. What happens next is anybody�??s guess�??a… (more)
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As soon as I started to track one character (Black the underlined main character) the author would spend several pages on another storyline. At one point he tells the story of certain characters and
The author has completely thought of every detail from political to science however, he didn't have to try to put it all in one book. Weak on the science fiction with way too many characters and gratuitous action and too many plot lines. You can skim the book quite easily to read the main plot line because he jumps around so much with other characters, from Axis to Allies, and quickly and still comprehend what the author attempted. I will not attempt another one of these.
Despite these questions I still enjoyed the book and plan to read the rest of the series.
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Not particularily original. I could name plenty of similar works. time travel to the second world war is old
Like Turtledove's the characters tend to be a bit wooden.They tend also to be steriotypes. Still the pace is a lot faster than Turtledoves. and and the plotting is interesting though all to evidently the first part of what is in this case a trilogy.
So why is it just ok for me (two stars)? First of all although he could just as easily have used today's technology and people going back through time, he chose to use technology 15 years into the future. This was a risky choice and for me it backfired. An example:
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