End of the Beginning

Name: End of the Beginning
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Harry Turtledove
ISBN: 9781400183937

Author: Harry Turtledove

Series: Days of Infamy #2

Narrator: John Allen Nelson

Unabridged: 18 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/31/2010

Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction

Synopsis

Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided.

Meanwhile, across the United States, from Pensacola, Florida, to San Diego, California, the military is marshaling its forces. Steel factories and fuel refineries are operating around the clock. New recruits are enlisting and undergoing rigorous training exercises—all for the opportunity to strike back and drive the enemy from American soil...

About Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove (he/him) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Master of Alternate History." He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the HOMer Award for Short story, and the John Esthen Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Turtledove's works include the Crosstime Traffic, Worldwar, Darkness, and Opening of the World series; the stand-alone novels The House of Daniel, Fort Pillow, and Give Me Back My Legions!; and over a dozen short stories available on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

It was more of the same. Good creativity, but not great writing and storytelling in my humble opinion. Lots and lots and lots and lots of telling. It has repetitive references and surplus language that made it too easy to kind of drone on. Loaded with cliches. And I even heard a few internally incon......more

Goodreads review by Merlin

The second part of Days of Infamy mostly managed to wrap up the story introduced in the first part, but unlike the first book which I enjoyed the second one seemed very rigid in the sense in felt like Turtledove was following a checklist of things he wanted to incorporate in the story rather than fo......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Turtledove does well because of his topics, not his writing. That's the only reason I stuck with this series. The characters are flat and predictable. He repeats his unnecessary explanations constantly. I actually listened to the audiobook rather than reading a hard copy and the narrator was terribl......more