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V-S Day: A Novel of Alternate History
Allen Steele
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February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
Featuring: Wernher von Braun; Robert Goddard
320 pages
ISBN: 0425259749
EAN: 9780425259740
Kindle: B00DMCPQW0
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Science Fiction Alternate History
With a gift for visionary fiction that “would make Robert
A. Heinlein proud” (Entertainment Weekly) three-time
Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an
alternate history rooted in an actual historical
possibility: what if the race to space had occurred in the
early days of WWII?
It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his
Fuehrer to abandon the V2 rocket and turn German resources
in a daring new direction: construction of a manned orbital
spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocket—
called Silbervogel—begins at Peenemunde. Though it is top
secret, British intelligence discovers the plan, and brings
word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American President
determines that there is only one logical response: the U.S.
must build a spacecraft capable of intercepting Silbervogel
and destroying it. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid-
fuel rocket, agrees to head the classified project. So begins a race against time—between two secret military
programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes
competition will spiral into a deadly game of political
intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in
the brutal skies above America.
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