Final Impact: A Novel of the Axis of Time

US: Del Rey, 2007. Fine. A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout: "The action is nonstop, the characters very real-and very different from ea ch other-and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think." -S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time In the year 2021 a multinational fleet-experimenting with untested weapons technology-pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to a dapt to new, high-tech killing tools, and twenty-first-century ways of war. For "uptimers" like Britain's Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle wit h their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry. As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle, soon every battle will be played out in a lethal d ance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon; knowledge from the fut ure. Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shif ted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingha m brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imag ination. Praise for John Birmingham's Weapons of Choice "Birmingham's enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction and socially conscious futurism." -Entertainment Weekly "High-tech intrigue and.