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Worldwar: Striking the Balance

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21st June 2012

Price: £7.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444717853

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When alien beings armed with devastatingly superior military technology and bent on conquest invaded earth, Allied and Axis forces were already engaged in a bloody conflict – the Second World War – that spanned the whole globe. Suddenly, humans had to stop fighting each other and unite against this deadly new enemy from beyond the Solar System.

From China to North Africa, from hit-and-run cavalry raids in the American West to tank clashes in Eastern Europe, the worldwide conflict raged. Now battlefield defeats, supply shortages, guerrilla warfare in their occupied territories, rebellion within their own ranks and atomic attacks forced the alien leaders to rethink drastically their strategy and tactics. Was it going to be necessary to destroy Earth in order to save it . . . ?

Reviews

<i>Publishers Weekly</i> on HOW FEW REMAIN)
With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world . . . This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less
<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> on RETURN ENGAGEMENTS
Turtledove plays heady games with actual history, scattering object lessons and bitter ironies along the way. Strong, complex characters against a sweeping alt-historical background.
<i>Time Out</i> on A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash.
<i>Booklist</i> on THE GREAT WAR series
Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters . . . totally fascinating.