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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not spoiler free. If you've continued this far you'll be happy to know that JB has cheerfully and ruthlessly not deviated from his mission of messing with your expectations, as the end of this trilogy has produced a world much uglier then what was actually experienced. Multiple nuclear weapons have been used, Hitler & Stalin have behaved in an even more beastly fashion then they did in real life, and World War III seems scheduled to begin in 1950. My main question at the end of the second book was just how Birmingham was going to wrap up World War II as a trilogy. The answer is to skip 1943 and end the war in 1944! This means that many stories that looked imperative in the second book are merely backstory here, and which ones I'm not going to give away. All in all, this is one of the best alternate history series I've ever read and I look forward to seeing what Birmingham does next with his characters; be it prequel or sequel. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345457161, Paperback)“The action is nonstop, the characters very real–and very different from each other–and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think.”–S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time In the year 2021 a multinational fleet–experimenting with untested weapons technology–pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools, and twenty-first-century ways of war. For “uptimers” like Britain’s Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry. As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle, soon every battle will be played out in a lethal dance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon; knowledge from the future. Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imagination. Praise for John Birmingham’s Weapons of Choice “Birmingham’s enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction and socially conscious futurism.” –Entertainment Weekly “High-tech intrigue and suspense similar to the works of Tom Clancy.” –Library Journal (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The action starts a couple of years after the last book finishes, with the allies commencing operation Overlord, striking at the Pas de Calais as the German forces already know that they should be invading in Normandy. The action sequences are all that you could ask for with that strange mixture of modern and past technologies that make you blink. However, there has been definite developments in our cast of characters that would make it appear as if there is a missing book between Designated Targets and Final Impact - it's almost as if Mr Birmingham realised he could easily have had another book between the two, but was, for whatever reason, constrained to limit the series to a proper trilogy (not like Douglas Adams's trilogy in five parts :-)). (