which was a prety transparant i A very interesting idea for a book. This is much more subtle than the Orson Scott cvard book ( see my review of "Empire"). It mixes real historical personages with imoptant fictional characters and builds a very believable story about how it would play out, if the Nazis developed sophisticated terrorist technics while Germany was occupied. In this alternaitve History, there is one minor eventy that changed which allowed nazis tyo fight on after they "lost" the war. Overall, The Man with the Iron Heart is a fairly weak effort by an author apparently struggling to find a new venue following the conclusion of his long running Timeline 191 series.moreĪ very interesting idea for a book. The ending of the book also leaves a lot to be desired. Turtledove does an interesting job creating an alternative version of Truman’s first few years in office, faithfully recreating his feisty personality, the Democrats loss of Congressional power in the midterm elections, and Truman’s weakness in national polls in the months prior to his re-election, but he doesn’t complete the job, ignoring the 1948 election and Truman’s famous whistle-stop campaign. In addition, The Man with the Iron Heart is, sadly, light on history. However, his comparison of WWII, a war the US was forced into, a war against a genocidal regime bent on world domination, with the Iraq War, a conflict instigated by the United States against a largely impotent regime, is laughable. I could imagine the events of his other alternate histories as being remotely plausible. The thing that I loved about Turtledove was that many of his narratives were for the most part believable. This book, however, simply takes the current problems and arguments over the Iraq War and replaces insurgents with Nazis and George W. Many of his other books cleverly integrate major historical events into the narrative and weave an interesting blend of history and fiction. I am normally a huge fan of Harry Turtledove, but he seriously drops the ball in this book. The thing that I loved about Turtledove was that many of his nar Sadly, this book was a huge disappointment. Sadly, this book was a huge disappointment.
At once a novel of thrilling military suspense, intriguing alternate history, and profound insight into contemporary affairs, The Man with the Iron Heart is a tour de force by a storyteller of exceptional imaginative power.more
On the home front, patriotism corrodes, political fortunes are made and lost in the face of an antiwar backlash, and a once-proud country wonders how the righteous fight for freedom overseas has collapsed into a hopeless quagmire. Suddenly the Allies–especially the United States–must battle an invisible enemy and sacrifice countless lives in a long, seemingly pointless, unwinnable conflict. Worse acts of terrorism follow all over Europe. None of the accused are there when the bomb goes off, but their judges, all of them present and accounted for, are annihilated.
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In November 1945, a truck bomb blows up the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where high-ranking Nazi officials are about to stand trial for war crimes. In this imagined world, Nazi forces resort to unconventional warfare, using the quick and dirty tactics of terrorism–booby traps, time bombs, mortar and rocket strikes in the night, assassinations, even kamikaze-style suicide attacks–to overturn what seemed to be a decisive Allied victory. How might today’s clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945?
We might likely have seen a German guerrilla war launched against the conquerors, presaging by more than half a century the protracted conflict with an unrelenting enemy that now engulfs the United States and its allies in Iraq.
But had SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart, not been assassinated in 1942, fate might have taken a different turn. But had SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany’s flagging resources and squabbling officials. What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by Germany’s flagging resources and squabbling officials.
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