It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The
only question: Who’s going to drop it first?
The
Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the
sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the
twenty-first century, the result of a botched military
experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across
the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments
of mass destruction.
Nuclear warheads,
rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided
missiles–all bets are off as the major powers of 1942
scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow
against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the
Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism
decades later. But that was the first time around.
With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge,
Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A
Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the
full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England,
while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of
Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even
greater prize . . . Hawaii.
Even in the United States
the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination
of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts
into violence.
Suddenly it’s a whole new war, with
high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from
Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the
brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler,
and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with
possibilities–all of them apocalyptic.
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