Rising Sun, Robert Conroy
Rising Sun, Robert Conroy
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Rising Sun

Author: Robert Conroy

Narrator: L.J. Ganser

Unabridged: 13 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/10/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

After a devastating encounter with Japanese submarines at the Battle of Midway, American naval forces are left in disarray as Japan dominates the Pacific, but a bold plan for ambushing the Japanese offers the hope of giving the Americans a fighting chance again.

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 Neil on August 13, 2014

An alternate history novel, it considers what might have happened had Japan won the Battle of Midway. In this reality, the Japanese submarine picket line is in place a couple of days early, which allows the Japanese to immediately sink two American carriers before the battle is joined and then hunt......more

Goodreads review by Steven on January 15, 2020

I thought I read all of Robert Conroy's books but I missed this one. And a gem it was as all his books are: well developed and believable characters, accurate and plausible big picture/strategic themes, and realistic battle scenes.......more

Goodreads review by Clay on February 17, 2013

I would like the book to mention Tokyo Rose. The Normandy Invasion ruse with dummy fleet and turn coat spy was intresting. No mention if atomic bombs were used to end the war.......more

Goodreads review by Allen on March 18, 2024

Excellent Alternate 1942 This novels starts with the premise that the Battle of Midway in June 1942 goes the opposite way with the Imperial Japanese Navy sinking all three American aircraft carriers instead of the USN sing all four Japanese carriers. This is an entirely plausible shift as a great dea......more

Goodreads review by Philip on March 26, 2019

Good book of alternative history of what would have happened if the Japanese had won The battle of Midway. The US was never going to surrender, the book illustrates that well. But this book of Conroy's is about 125 to long and a bit too much romance between the male and female characters. And the st......more