Designated Targets

of John Birmingham (Goodreads Author)

Series: Axis of Time #2

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Description

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles - all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence.Suddenly it's a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilities - all of them apocalyptic.

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Alternate History Alternate History Science Fiction Fiction Time Travel Military Fiction Thriller War Historical Fiction Fantasy World War II

Main Characters

Joseph Stalin J. Edgar Hoover Captain Karen Halabi Major Margie Francois Colonel J.L. Jones Captain Mike Judge Admiral Phillip Kolhammer Captain Jane Willet His Royal Highness Major Harry Windsor Major Pavel Ivanon Lieutenant Rachel Nguyen Chief Petty Officer Vincente Rogas Captain Roger Müller Julia Duffy Rosanna Natoli John Curtin Dwight D. Eisenhower Admiral Ernest King General Douglas MacArthur General George Marshall Admiral Chester Nimitz President Franklin Roosevelt William Stephenson Brigadier Michael Barnes Commander Daniel Black Lieutenant John F. Kennedy Lieutent Wally Curtis Chief Petty Officer Eddie Mohr Able Seaman Michael Molloy Detective Sergeant Lou Cherry James "Slim Jim" Davidson Maria O'Brien Laventry Beria Reichsminister Josef Göbbels Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler Reichchancellor Adolf Hitler Colonel Paul Brasch Commander Jisaku Hidaka Harold "Kim" Philby Colonel Otto Skorzeny Isoroku Yamamoto Winston Churchill