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    The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat
    The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat
    The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat
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    The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat

    Written by Harry Turtledove

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In Harry Turtledove's mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin's terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.nbsp;England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?nbsp;Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan-and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country's imagination?nbsp;Coup d'Etat captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany's Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler's fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world-and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.nbsp;With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies-and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 31, 2012
    ISBN9781452676777
    The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat
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    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the “master of alternate history,” and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.

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    • 3/5
      Not sure why they have this classified as science fiction which I was hoping it was, but is not. Turns out the book is really, a historical ficiton wherein Churchill is murdered before the USA gets into WWII and the British and French switch sides, join with Hitler against Stalin and then switch again to fight against the Axis. Interesting supposition had the socialist democrats and communists in both countries managed to overcome the conservatives. Well, our side wins in the end thanks to the characters in the book and their trials and machinations.I found it interesting reading, but would have like the author to spend more time on the policial aspects of his plot. Instead he provides very interesting character sketches of participants on both sides, virtures and failings to his credit, affirming that regardless of politics people are people with many of the same failings and attributes.Enjoyed the book a great deal, it was different from most of my leisure reading, would recommend.
    • 4/5
      Pretty standard Turtledove Alternate History with multiple view points from all sides and concentrating on the ordinary person at war.
    • 1/5
      Mr Turtledove writes the same book over and over. Predictable plots, takes two books worth of story and stretches it to a repeating, boring 6 books. Dont waste your time or allow yourself to be abused by this great hack.
    • 2/5
      The fourth volume of Harry Turtledove’s “The War That Came Early” series opens up at the start of 1941 onto a very different conflict. Britain and France have come to terms with Nazi Germany, and have even joined them in their ongoing war with the Soviet Union. The United States faces a series of setbacks against the Japanese, with whom they are at war after a series of sudden attacks throughout the Pacific. And the civil war in Spain drags on, a forgotten precursor to the conflict now raging. As the year unfolds, however, events begin to reorient the alignments. A military coup in Britain topples the government and rejoins te struggle against the Nazis, and with the French wobbling the prospect of a two-front war rears up as an unwelcome prospect for the Germans. But can they defeat the Soviets before that prospect becomes a reality?

      Readers who have reached this point in the series already know what they will be getting in this latest installment, and those who have enjoyed following his cast of characters will find much to satisfy them here. Moreover, Turtledove continues to provide more in the way of the action than he did in his second volume, which helps to keep things lively. Nevertheless, there is still a sense throughout this book of treading water, as much of the key events – both personal and political – seem to consist of undoing the developments of his last book. Because of this, the whole series is starting to feel bloated, as Turtledove stretches out events that could (as he has demonstrated in previous series) have covered more dramatically in fewer volumes. Diehard fans of Turtledove’s works may not mind, but for anyone seeking to follow up his earlier, better works they might find his latest alternate history series something of a disappointment.
    • 2/5
      I found I had little new to find in this fourth re-working of WWII by Harry T. The idea that a war broke out instead of the Munich betrayal of Czechoslovakia was mildly interesting at first, but the difficulty in alternate history is firstly, finding a tipping point, and then laying out the things which then might have changed and how they would have effected the world in which we live today. If I may be allowed to speculate, is Turtledove moving us to a final realignment of the WWII Atlantic Alliance, as that is the only way he can set up yet another scenario in which the USA single-handedly saves the world from a fascist future? Considering that I write this on Jan. 6, 2021, I am wondering the opposite is true, is Turtledove revealing for us the undefeatable movement to fascism that is inherent in the structure of America.? Will I read the next book? Time will tell.