Weapons of Choice

Overview:

  • Title: Weapons of Choice
  • Author: John Birmingham
  • Year: 2004
  • Type: Novel
  • Series: Axis of Time
  • Number in series: 1

Synopsis:

Publisher's description:" On the eve of America's greatest victory in the Pacific, a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . 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 Atollâ€"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 Harborâ€"led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruanceâ€"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 themselvesâ€"by their very presenceâ€"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 tripâ€"and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese. What happens next is anybody's guessâ€"and everybody's nightmare. . . ."

Awards:

  • 2005. Weapons of Choice Locus Poll, Best First Novel (Nomination)

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