Red Inferno, Robert Conroy
Red Inferno, Robert Conroy
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Red Inferno
1945

Author: Robert Conroy

Narrator: Paul Costanzo

Unabridged: 14 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2018


Synopsis

In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this turning point in history, another war is about to explode.

To win World War II, the Allies dealt with the devil. Joseph Stalin helped FDR, Churchill, and Truman crush Hitler. But what if "Uncle Joe" had given in to his desire to possess Germany and all of Europe? In this stunning novel, Robert Conroy picks up the history of the war just as American troops cross the Elbe into Germany. Then Stalin slams them with the brute force of his enormous Soviet army.

From American soldiers and German civilians trapped in the ruins of Potsdam to US military men fighting behind enemy lines, from a scholarly Russia expert who becomes a secret player in a new war to Stalin's cult of killers in Moscow, this saga captures the human face of international conflict. With the Soviets vastly outnumbering the Americans—but undercut by chronic fuel shortages and mistrust—Eisenhower employs a brilliant strategy of retreat to buy critical time for air superiority. Soon, Truman makes a series of controversial decisions, enlisting German help and planning to devastate the massive Red Army by using America's ultimate and most secret weapon.

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

What if...it's been asked over and over. What if the sparks between east and West (the Western Allies vs. the Soviet Union) had grown to fire before WW2 ended? What if we didn't get to the Cold War but rolled right into a Hot War? This question has been batted around for a long time (since WW2 really......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Eh. I mean, I know what he's trying to say and do, but the execution is just...crap. Many other people have given their summaries (and seriously, why does everyone on here write a summary before they give their opinions? There's already a summary right up there!) so I'll skip that part. There are sev......more

Goodreads review by Dave

An interesting alternate history, written as though the Russians decided to start a war with America immediately following Hitler's death. I am in two minds about this book, because on the one hand I enjoyed it, but on the other, the flaws become more apparent. Where Conroy is strong is in his cast o......more

Goodreads review by Michael

I enjoyed this from a historical and ploitical viewpoint. Robert Conroy did a good job of selecting a historical point to diverge from and tell his story. This reminded me of another favorite, Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising.......more