1920, Robert Conroy
1920, Robert Conroy
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1920
America's Great War

Author: Robert Conroy

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/03/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

By the author of breakout WW II era alternate history Himmler' s War and Rising Sun, a compelling alternate history thriller. After winning WW I, Germany invades America in 1920, marching through California and Texas as a desperate nation resists. Consider another 1920: Imperial Germany has become the most powerful nation in the world. In 1914, she had crushed England, France, and Russia in a war that was short but entirely devastating. By 1920, Kaiser Wilhelm II is looking for new lands to devour. The United States is fast becoming an economic super-power and the only nation that can conceivably threaten Germany. The U.S. is militarily inept, however, and is led by a sick and delusional president who wanted to avoid war at any price. Thus, Germany is able to ship a huge army to Mexico to support a puppet government. Her real goal: the invasion and permanent conquest of California and Texas. America desperately resists as the mightiest and most brutal army in the world in a battle fought on land, at sea, and in the air as enemy armies savagely marched up on California, and move north towards a second Battle of the Alamo. Only the indomitable spirit of freedom can answer the Kaiser's challenge.

About Robert Conroy

Robert Conroy was a business and economic history teacher who lived in Detroit. His alternate-history novels include 1901, 1862, 1945, 1942, and Red Inferno: 1945. He died in 2014.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookwraiths on March 11, 2014

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths Reviews 1920: America's Great War is alternate history at its best. It is fast. It’s fun. It doesn’t take itself too seriously. Nor does it pretend to give you a history lesson in disguise. Nope, Robert Conroy has written a real page-turner that has interesting cha......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on June 13, 2019

Not a bad read. I tend to love good alternate history and this one is a good sound "okay". I've always been fascinated by the "what ifs" of the First World War. So much is almost totally unknown by the general public anymore. History taught in schools has been slipping for many years and it often re......more

Goodreads review by James on July 07, 2017

I liked this book, but I really wanted to love it. It has a fascinating setting, a world dominated by Imperial Germany (don't listen to the reviewers claiming its full of historical inaccuracies, 5 minutes of research could teach you more than they know), and its battles are really cool and fun to r......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on April 19, 2014

I'm a junkie for alternate history and I generally enjoy Robert Conroy's books. This one was particularly interesting because I had just finished writing a non-fiction book on America's war plans and War Plan Black, the war with Germany, was one of my favorite chapters. I found things wrong, as a hi......more

Goodreads review by Nadienne on August 06, 2021

Overall, a pretty interesting and fun romp through the realms of alternate history. Coming from a Harry Turtledove background, I did find it rather...less-detailed...in its scope, and it seemed to resolve itself rather quickly. For being a "Great War" / "World War One" era story, it still followed t......more

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