Fallout

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The work Fallout represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fallout

Statement of responsibility

Harry Turtledove

Title variation

Fall out

Creator

• Turtledove, Harry

Author

• Turtledove, Harry

Subject

• Cold War -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Fiction
• War fiction
• War fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Genre

• War fiction
• Fiction
• Alternative histories (Fiction)

Language

eng

Summary

"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The genie is out of the bottle. And there's no telling what fresh hell will come next. At the heart of Fallout are Harry Truman and Josef Stalin. Even as Joe McCarthy rises in power, the U.S. president is focused elsewhere, planning to cut off the head of the Soviet threat by taking out Stalin. It's a daring gambit, but the Soviets have one of their own. Meanwhile, Europe's weak sisters, France and Italy, seem poised to choose the winning side, while China threatens to overrun Korea. With Great Britain ravaged and swaths of America in ruins, leaders are running out of options. When the United States drops another series of bombs to slow the Russian advance in Europe, Stalin strikes back--with horrifying results. These staggering events unfold through the eyes of a sprawling cast of characters: a Holocaust survivor in a displaced persons camp in Washington; the wife of a bomber pilot and her five-year-old daughter starting a new existence; a savage Soviet fighter waging war by his own rules; a British pub owner falling in love with an American pilot. In the masterly hands of Harry Turtledove, this epic chronicle of war becomes a story of human struggle. As the armies of the world implode, the next chapter will be written by the survivors--those willing to rise up for an uncertain future."--

Member of

• Hot war, 2

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Cataloging source

YDX

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

The Hot War

Series volume

2