Author: Harry Turtledove
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Bombs 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. The only way to stop the Chinese and North Korean Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. In reality, Truman rejected his general’s advice. But here, he does not. And the miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia’s reaction.
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Bombs 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. The only way to stop the Chinese and North Korean Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula and save thousands of American lives is through a nuclear attack. MacArthur advocates a strike on Chinese targets in Manchuria. In reality, Truman rejected his general’s advice. But here, he does not. And the miscalculation turns into a disaster when Truman fails to foresee Russia’s reaction.
Stalin strikes U.S. allies in Europe and Great Britain. And as the shock
waves are settling, the two superpowers are caught in a horrifying
face-off. Will they attack each other directly with nukes? And what
countries will be caught in between? This dramatic
page turner plays out through the experiences of a large cast of characters, from ordinary people (a desperate war widow, a turncoat Hungarian sergeant, an American soldier alone
behind enemy lines in Korea) to the puppet-masters of Armageddon (Truman, Mao, and
Stalin).
The whole world has become a battleground. Strategic strikes
lead to massive movements of ground troops. Cities are destroyed,
economies ravaged. Turtledove's candid and gritty style is convincing, if a little repetitive and while fascinating this series might have been compressed into one book.
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