Publisher's Synopsis
The year is 1944.
Fortress Europe is being assailed from everywhere. After the years of conquests and victories, the Axis is now hard-pressed from everywhere. On the Eastern Front, the war is raging as violently as before. The Soviets are on the offensive. The masses of Red Army soldiers and tanks threatens to overwhelm the German conquerors. 1943 ended with the Axis forces reeling back across the whole frontline, and now the Russians seek to give the killing blow to the Wehrmacht. In Africa, the Allies have pushed the Germano-Italian forces to their last redoubt in Libya, but the Mareth line will prove a formidable obstacle for Patton's 7th army. In Spain and Portugal, battle will soon be joined as the Allies are about to land in force and try to pry open the Mediterranean Sea entrance.In North-Western Europe, the 1943 year ended with the Allies sole masters of the North Atlantic, and they are now poised to land in force in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Germany, out of troops and resources to defend their British conquest, will have to choose. Defend or retreat. In the Pacific, the Japanese, now outnumbered and outmatched in ships, airplanes, and logistics will have to fight hard to block the American advance. With the liberation of Oahu and the rebuilding of their great Pearl Harbor base, the USA is ready to send its enormous armada toward the rest of the Pacific. The future is bleak for Imperial Japan.But there is still hope for the Axis. New weapons are coming operational that could swing the balance once more in favor of the Germans. Jet planes, invincible tanks, even missiles are about to get to the battlefield, to the Allies great dismay.With the unlimited resources of its oil conquests and extensive, untouched industrial infrastructure, Germany can still win the day. This is the story of the Second World War.
