The War That Came Early Coup dEtat, Harry Turtledove
The War That Came Early Coup dEtat, Harry Turtledove
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The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 17 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/31/2012


Synopsis

In Harry Turtledove's mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin's terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.
 
England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?
 
Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen to wake up to his evil. For the time being, the United States is fighting only Japan—and the war is not going as well as Washington would like. Can Roosevelt keep his grip on the country's imagination?
 
Coup d'Etat captures how war makes for the strangest of bedfellows. A freethinking Frenchman fights side by side with racist Nazis. A Czech finds himself on the dusty front lines of the Spanish Civil War, gunning for Germany's Nationalist allies. A German bomber pilot courts a half-Polish, half-Jewish beauty in Bialystock. And the Jews in Germany, though trapped under Hitler's fist, are as yet protected by his fear of looking bad before the world—and by an outspoken Catholic bishop.
 
With his spectacular command of character, coincidence, and military and political strategies, Harry Turtledove continues a passionate, unmatched saga of a World War II composed of different enemies, different allies—and hurtling toward a horrific moment. For a diabolical new weapon is about to be unleashed, not by the United States, but by Japan, in a tactic that will shock the world.

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 Nadienne on March 13, 2021

Another refreshing entry into this series. We start with the English realizing their horrid mistake and rejoining the side of right - albeit through a military coup d'etat (hence the title) - and we end with the French coming to the same conclusion - without their own coup. Thus, the Germans are plu......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 18, 2015

I can't take any more, I really can't. Four books and counting and still nothing has happened. First the English and the French join Hitler and invade Russia. Then they change their minds. The Japanese are doing something, but for some reason the Pearl Harbor attack doesn't work. Or did it? I couldn......more

Goodreads review by Elliott on May 26, 2015

I’m going to be honest in that I’ve never been a huge fan of Harry Turtledove, granted I’ve read most of his alternate history books, but I read them more for the ideas and broad narratives that he presents rather than any discernible writing ability, and that writing ability is my biggest complain......more

Goodreads review by Leons1701 on January 26, 2015

Two stars feels both generous and too low at the same time. Once again, Bad Harry is back, every scene with a character must contain some reference to the same basic fact that the character exists to serve as a carrier for. We get it Harry, you believe your readers are complete morons, incapable of......more

Goodreads review by Korey on April 03, 2018

I enjoy reading a book once, not several times. I swear in this book he would copy and paste the same bloody one liners over and over again. I got e information the first time, no need to have it bashed into my brain. This book could have even knocked down quite easily to 300 pages with some good ed......more