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Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

By: Harry Turtledove
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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No one could stop them - not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt....

The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb. But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them. Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy's captured radar in England, or battling house to house on the streets of Chicago, humankind would never give up.

Yet no one could say when the hellish inferno of death would stop being a war of conquest and turn into a war of survival - the very survival of the planet....

©2009 Harry Turtledove (P)2010 Tantor Espionage Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Military Science Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense War & Military War Soviet Union Russia Stalin Survival Winston Churchill

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"Turtledove's thorough command of storytelling and historiography...assure us that this is an irresistibl[e] book." ( Booklist)
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just as good as the first book, ready for part 3. i must ration my self

to hell with thw lizards

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While the Worldwar series is pretty far out there compared to the more grounded alternate civil war and alternate WW2 novels, still fantastic and worth a listen

Best Alternate History Writer

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Read this years ago and found the audiobook, very strong performance for the story, very consistent.

Outstanding performance.

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Great writing and well read. Vibrant characters getting some intense action. Still newish to audiobooks, I have a decent imagination anyway but I normally read books based on tv or movies with established characters. These feel very real.

Even better than the first part.

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Performance generally good- some mispronunciations- Leicester is correctly pronounced LEST-er for example. Very good aside from this

Outstanding work from the master of alt-history

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