By the author of breakout WW II era alternate history Himmler’s War and Rising Sun, a compelling alternate history thriller. After winning WW I, Germany invades America in 1920, marching through California and Texas as a desperate nation resists.
Consider another 1920: Imperial Germany has become the most powerful nation in the world. In 1914, she had crushed England, France, and Russia in a war that was short but entirely devastating.
By 1920, Kaiser Wilhelm II is looking for new lands to devour. The United States is fast becoming an economic super-power and the only nation that can conceivably threaten Germany. The U.S. is militarily inept, however, and is led by a sick and delusional president who wanted to avoid war at any price. Thus, Germany is able to ship a huge army to Mexico to support a puppet government.
Her real goal: the invasion and permanent conquest of California and Texas.
America desperately resists as the mightiest and most brutal army in the world in a battle fought on land, at sea, and in the air as enemy armies savagely marched up on California, and move north towards a second Battle of the Alamo. Only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser's challenge.
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Product ReviewThis book oscillates between bad and ludicrous.
Mr Conroy is obviously very confused about WWI, and it is the source of many of the book's woes.
The main problem is, while the premise of the story is that the Schlieffen plan worked and France was forced to surrender in 1915, all the technological and tactical developments that occurred between 1915 and 1918 are also assumed to have happened.
Mr Conroy also confuses the Russian Front of WWI with the one of WWII. The book's Germans are quite terrible compared to their historical counterparts, in that they weren't able to defeat Russia after having gotten rid of the Western Front by 1915, while the historical Germans had brought Russia to capitulation by March, 1918 while fighting Wagnerian battles against the Allies in the West.
I have seldom read such poorely researched alternative history.Posted on
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Product Reviewcould have happened as presented.
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Product ReviewTake his previous 1901 Novel, make it the next generation of German Military, the Zimmerman Telegram comes in 1920 just as the feckless Woodrow Wilson dies and now the target is Texas to California! USofA still unprepared but Germany will have problems too!
Good Alt.Hist. based on reasonable history.Posted on
