Designated Targets

Fülszöveg

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.
The only question: Who's going to drop it first?
The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden
appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result
of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across
the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.
Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided
missiles—all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first
to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world
now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism
decades later. But that was the first time around.
With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly
change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to
bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.
The only question: Who's going to drop it first?
The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden
appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result
of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across
the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.
Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided
missiles—all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first
to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world
now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism
decades later. But that was the first time around.
With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly
change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to
bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while
in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto
schemes to seize an even greater prize Hawaii.
Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with
a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts
into violence.
Suddenly it's a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international
manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the
brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront
extreme choices and a future rife with possibilities—all of them apocalyptic.
Praise for John Birmingham's Weapons of Choice,
the first book in The Axis of Time
"[A] weapons-grade military techno-thriller . - . It's like a Clive
Cussler novel fell into a transporter beam with a Stephen
Ambrose history, and they came out all fused together."
—Time
"High-tech intrigue and suspense similar to the works of
Tom Clancy." —Library Journal Vissza