Worldwar Tilting the Balance, Harry Turtledove
Worldwar Tilting the Balance, Harry Turtledove
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Worldwar: Tilting the Balance

Author: Harry Turtledove

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 25 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/20/2010


Synopsis

No one could stop them—not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt...

The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb.

But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them. Whether delivering supplies in tiny biplanes to partisans across the vast steppes of Russia, working furiously to understand the enemy's captured radar in England, or battling house to house on the streets of Chicago, humankind would never give up.

Yet no one could say when the hellish inferno of death would stop being a war of conquest and turn into a war of survival—the very survival of the planet...

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 Johnny on January 16, 2012

Anyone who follows my reviews and synopses of the books I read would know that I have a bias against the epic storytelling style where points of view skip around like flies on a garbage dump. Such a perspective runs the risk of having me lose interest when some of the characters don’t really seem co......more

Goodreads review by Lisabet on May 13, 2022

This is the second of four books in Harry Turtledove's alternative history series about an alien invasion disrupting the Second World War. For the first fifty pages or so, I kept thinking I'd stop reading soon. The plot did not really seem to be going anywhere, and though I truly love the way Turtle......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 07, 2018

Slightly disappointing sequel to the first book as the characters are stalled and few make much progression. The main story is the race to make a nuclear warhead as the US, Russia,Germany and Japan all step up their efforts - with one causing a disaster and one actually succeeding. Diverting enough.......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on May 01, 2023

DNF at 50% (page 235) I didn't necessarily hate this book. I had a lot of the same problems with this one that I had with the first book in the series: the casual, period appropriate racism and sexism, which seems to be excused by the narrative (though, it didn't seem nearly as egregious as the first......more

Goodreads review by Alex on August 12, 2024

The Worldwar series combines the science fiction and alternate history genres. Its premise: what if aliens had invaded in the middle of WWII? In the series's first book, "In the Balance," the planet reels as the aliens win victory after victory. Soon enough, human enemies turn their guns from one ano......more