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Himmler's War (2011)

by Robert Conroy(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1451637616 (ISBN13: 9781451637618)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Baen

review 1: An interesting read. Conroy's point of departure is in 1944, when a small American bomber breaks formation when attacked by the Germans and inadvertently drops its payload on Hitler's head. The plot proceeds fairly logically until the end, when, as one of my friends noted, Conroy "drives off a cliff." In all of his books that I have read thus far, Conroy starts a major, decisive battle on page 340/360, takes fifteen pages to describe that battle from various perspectives, and then hastily wraps up numerous loose ends in the last five pages. It leaves the reader feeling incomplete, asking, "Is that it?"Conroy seems to care only about the military aspect of his battles, the enduring political legacy be damned.
review 2: One of the issues of alternative fiction is... more creating the opening scenerio that starts the chain of events that would have happened if "what if" had happened to begin with. The indication of good alternative fiction book is one that makes it all believable that this could have really happened. There are books in this genre that instead of one or two changes creating a cascade authors want to change a whole slew of events in a single moment losing crediability. Fortunately, this book is not one of those. Conroy started the book with simple event that would have immense impact on the direction of the war and how he lays it out is very believable. What follows is a great story line that keeps the reader engaged. Suprisingly, some of the main players on the German side aren't who you would think. I highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys alternative history fiction. Its fast past reading makes it pager turner. The only disappointment was that the ending seemed kind of rush as if there was a limitation to the remain number of pages that he could use; otherwise, this was a great read. less

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