Worldwar: Striking the Balance - Softcover

Turtledove, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340684917 ISBN 13: 9780340684917

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 1997

Synopsis

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 . . . ?

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Review:

With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world . . . This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less (Publishers Weekly on HOW FEW REMAIN))

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. (Kirkus Reviews on RETURN ENGAGEMENTS)

Good fun. It has an authentic speculative quality, energy and dash. (Time Out on A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE)

Engrossing ... definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters . . . totally fascinating. (Booklist on THE GREAT WAR series)

Book Description:

What would happen if the Earth had been invaded by aliens at the height of World War II? This is the fourth and final volume of the Worldwar saga, which continues with the Colonization trilogy and ends with Homeward Bound.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0340684917
• ISBN 13: 9780340684917
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528