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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Axis of Time
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y separately published work icon Weapons of Choice : World War 2.1 John Birmingham , Sydney : Macmillan , 2004 Z1125728 2004 single work novel historical fiction thriller 'The impossible has spawned the unthinkable.

A military experiment in the year 2021 has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll—and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war.

Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor—led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance—have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they've never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman and half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada's awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.

Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves—by their very presence—have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip—and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese. What happens next is anybody's guess—and everybody's nightmare. . . .' (Publisher's blurb)
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y separately published work icon Designated Targets : World War 2.2 John Birmingham , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2005 Z1214361 2005 single work novel historical fiction thriller
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y separately published work icon Final Impact : World War 2.3 John Birmingham , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2006 Z1288191 2006 single work novel historical fiction thriller As history reaches a tipping point, the forces unleashed by the Transition threaten to bring the future crashing down in ruins. Will Hitler and Tojo race towards an atom bomb? Stalin plots to tear down the future and rebuild it in his image. And the Allies begin their Great Crusade with weapons and knowledge from the next century. What price will Kolhammer and his people pay for disrupting their own past? (Backcover)

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