In an alternate universe in which Japan rules the Pacific and Alaska is a Russian territory, Confederacy president Jake Featherston sends his planes to bomb Philadelphia and General George Patton drives his armored divisions north, triggering World War II. By the author of American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
With visionary brilliance, Harry Turtledove brings to a climactic conclusion his monumental, acclaimed drama of a nation’s tragedy and the men and women who play their roles–with valor, fear, and folly–on history’s greatest stage.
“Turtledove never tires of exploring the paths not taken, bringing to his storytelling a prodigious knowledge of his subject and a profound understanding of human sensibilities and motivations.”—Library Journal It’s 1942.
In The Grapple, he takes his spellbinding vision to new heights as he captures the heart and soul of a generation born and raised amid unimaginable violence. This is a struggle of conquest and conscience, played out on American soil.
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The tide of battle turns against the Confederates, Northern forces overrun the Southern capital, and their mad president, desperate for victory, threatens to unleash the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb, in a re-imagining of World War II.
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