Isbn: 9781468142860 - spithead (8 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The year is 1950 in a parallel universe. Because the British Navy sailed (rather than remained at anchor) out of Spithead Roadstead on a crucial morning in July 1914, both World War I and II never happened. But ever since, Europe, Asia, and the US have teetered on the brink of conflict. Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, sends a Washington desk man, an agent posing as an archaeological writer, to England to uncover what the Germans (and the Japanese, the Austro-Hungarians, and the Russians) are planning. Thus begins this speculative tale of spies and adventure and chase - into the British Museum, the Minoan palaces on Crete, and climaxing in a mad pursuit through the streets of Geneva. How different is the world for having been at "peace"? Can an idea man and his beautiful assistant ferret out a dread secret weapon and prevent a world conflagration? SPITHEAD occurs in a parallel world of that's slightly out of focus: Reo is a major car manufacturer; Robert A. Taft is president; FDR is the Secretary of the Navy; the B-17 bomber is just into production; TV sets have only come onto the market months before; a Basque republic is newly formed on the Iberian peninsula; Austria-Hungary is a tottering empire propped up by the German kaiser; Trotsky has been in power since the Russian revolution of 1922; Italian fascism, created by a worldwide depression in 1922, is weakly led by its second dictator, Ciano; and a German splinter fascist group, the Koda, is based in Munich and led by Franz Brockdorff. Only the Japanese Empire has shown a similar historical evolution to the one in our universe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…