Friday, April 09, 2010

End of the Beginning - Harry Turtledove

2005; 519 pages. Genre : Alternate History. Overall Rating : 5½*/10.
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This is the sequel to Days Of Infamy, which is reviewed here, and which addressed the Alt-Hist question of "What if the Japanese had decided to invade the Hawaiian islands after their successful bombing of Pearl Harbor?"
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My review in 50 words or less...
If Japan had invaded and conquered Hawaii in December 1941, what would be her odds of holding it against an American counterattack? How brutal would the occupation be? EOTB begins in early 1943 and addresses these questions. Not much action until halfway through, but then it rocks.
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The "what if I wasn't limited to 50 words" version of the review is here.

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