Publisher's Synopsis
The year is 1947.
The Third World War is in full swing. The Soviet Union has attacked the Allies all over the map, and the Anglo-Americans are reeling back from serious defeats in Germany, Slovenia, and the rest of Central Europe. Over one million men are encircled in Berlin, and things look like the Red Army will roll over the old continent. The situation is only marginally better in Asia, with a few Allied victories in China and a potential counter-offensive by Douglas MacArthur. But overall, the situation is dire. The Soviets have overrun the Korean Peninsula except for a small defensive perimeter in a city called Pusan located in the country's southeast. In desperation, the Allies have recruited their former enemies to fight the red tide with them. First, they rearmed the Japanese forces that had been entangled with the red Army since its invasion of Manchuria. And then, in an incredible turn of events, they marshaled all the surrendered Geman forces back to war. For without the formerly vanquished Wehrmacht, there can be no victory over Stalin's hordes. The millions upon millions of Russian soldiers and spilling across the World like a disease that cannot be stopped unless something truly bold is done. The Allied manpower shortage can only be fixed by making a pact with the devil. General Manstein and Fuhrer Guderian are thus called back to service, along with all of the German war heroes like Adolf Galland and Erich Walder. A strong counter-offensive is quickly reorganized. The Anglo-Saxon forces adopt German tactics as Manstein's influence grows within the Allied high command. Hope surges again that victory, or at least stalemate, is attainable against the Soviet Union. In Moscow, Skorzeny is about to meet the great Stalin. His death is all but a foregone conclusion at the end of his Communist executioners. Rommel is liberated from his Turkish prison to take back arms along with his Middle Eastern Army. At the same time, General Devers tries to hang on in Berlin against millions of Soviet soldiers encircling his beleaguered city. Finally, nuclear fire is never too far from the battlefield, with American President Harry Truman toying with the complete and utter annihilation of the USSR with an attack so terrible that it defies the imagination. The only thing holding his decision is the belief that Soviet Russia also has the Atomic bomb. This is the story of the Second World War
