Fallout: The Hot War"Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history."--USA Today The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In this astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The genie is out of the bottle. And there's no telling what fresh hell will come next. At the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Even as Joe McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. president is focused elsewhere, planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin. It's a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. Meanwhile, Europe's weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. With Great Britain ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of options. When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back--with horrifying results. These staggering events unfold through the eyes of a sprawling cast of characters: a Holocaust survivor in a displaced persons camp in Washington; the wife of a bomber pilot and her five-year-old daughter starting a new existence; a savage Soviet fighter waging war by his own rules; a British pub owner falling in love with an American pilot. In the masterly hands of Harry Turtledove, this epic chronicle of war becomes a story of human struggle. As the armies of the world implode, the next chapter will be written by the survivors--those willing to rise up for an uncertain future. Praise for Fallout "Turtledove proves, yet again, that he is the best when it comes to rewriting history!"--Suspense Magazine "Turtledove, the master of alternate history, has done well again."--Shelf Awareness "No one writes alternate-history novels quite like Turtledove. . . . Expect epic political stakes as well as personal and heartfelt stories of war."--BookTrib |
Contents
Section 1 | 19 |
Section 2 | 35 |
Section 3 | 67 |
Section 4 | 83 |
Section 5 | 99 |
Section 6 | 115 |
Section 7 | 131 |
Section 8 | 147 |
Section 14 | 243 |
Section 15 | 259 |
Section 16 | 275 |
Section 17 | 291 |
Section 18 | 307 |
Section 19 | 323 |
Section 20 | 339 |
Section 21 | 355 |
Section 9 | 163 |
Section 10 | 179 |
Section 11 | 195 |
Section 12 | 211 |
Section 13 | 227 |
Section 22 | 371 |
Section 23 | 388 |
Section 24 | 404 |
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