About the Book
A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost,
signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But
the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country and
pushed beyond its borders. World War II had begun, and England, after a
fatal act of appeasement, was fighting a war for which it was not
prepared.
Now, in this thrilling, provocative, and fascinating
alternate history by Harry Turtledove, another scenario is played out:
What if Chamberlain had not signed the accord? What if Hitler had acted
rashly, before his army was ready – would such impatience have helped him
or doomed him faster? Here is an action-packed, blow-by-blow chronicle
of the war that might have been – and the repercussions that might have
echoed through history – had Hitler reached too far, too soon, and too
fast.
Turtledove uses dozens of points of view to tell this
story: from American marines serving in Japanese-occupied China to
members of a Jewish German family with a proud history of war service
to their nation, from ragtag volunteers fighting in the Abraham Lincoln
Battalion in Spain to an American woman desperately trying to escape
Nazi-occupied territory – and witnessing the war from within the belly of
the beast.
A novel that reveals the human face of war while
simultaneously riding the twists and turns that make up the great acts
of history, Hitler’s War is the beginning of an exciting new
alternate history saga. Here is a tale of powerful leaders and ordinary
people, of spies, soldiers, and traitors, of the shifting alliances
that draw some together while tearing others apart. At once
authoritative, brilliantly imaginative, and hugely entertaining, Hitler’s War captures the beginning of a very different World War II – with a very different fate for our world today.
