Lightning in the night

By Fred Allhoff

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135365570
• ISBN13: 9780135365571
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A warning....

1940, a series of installments in Liberty magazine tells the story of the Third Reich, with help from the Japanese and Russians, attacking the US in 1945. It must have seemed weird to the American readers at the time. A surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, submarines warfare, massive bombing runs against civilian targets. Even atomic bombs! Something out of a Sci-Fi novel by Wells. Yet here it is, 2010, and one can't help but find it just as weird and amazing. On one hand the USA ended up going to war much sooner than 1945. And while the author tried to make the combat as realistic as possible, using sources within the military, it still seems almost clean and orderly compared to the horrors of the real thing. Hindsight is of course perfect but did people really think, at least those in 1940, that they would be able to stay out of the war? Did they really need a warning to see the future of the Earth if Nazi Germany won against the USSR and the Empire of Great Britain? And the ending is FAR from a happy one. If you liked this book I would also suggest both The Man in the High Castle and Target: America: Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States.