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V-S DAY: A NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY
By: 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 βwould make Robert A. Heinlein proudβ (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 rocketβ called Silbervogelβbegins 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 timeβbetween 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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