War That Came Early Hitler's War (the War That Came Early, Book One), Book 1, (Paperback)

from Libra500

This reads like a really long comic book story, without the pictures. There is very little apart from the relentless action; no character development, analysis of the characters actions, little of the wider context, and little reason given for the alternate history. But, that's not really why you...

from stevetempo

A fun read and very a typical "Turtledove" novel. The Alternative History pivot point for this book is that Hitler starts WWII earlier then in our timeline. Here the war starts with an invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938 as opposed to a free walk-in occupation of Czechoslovakia and a subsequent in...

from Guide2

The concept is interesting and some of the historical differene closely linked with real historical figures, but very Turtledove formulaic, so not much new here.

from tmph

More me being not fair, but not so interested. Very facile and very fast reading, but, you know: historical fiction. He picked a perfect point in time, "Munich" didn't happen. Chamberlain and Daladier did not appease and Hitler goes to actual war a year early. The book jumps to every country and ...

from DinadansFriend

This is a what-if about the Munich Conference blowing up, and the effect on the European War that would have ensued. In this case, the Soviets weigh in early, and the USA has not that much to do. But the Japanese are also fighing the USSR at the time and so the USA gets its Pacific War. It is ent...