In 1941 Winston Churchill was Hitler's worst enemy. Then a Nazi secret
agent changed everything.
What if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up
to him in 1938? Enraged, Hitler reacts by lashing out at the West,
promising his soldiers that they will reach Paris by the new year.
Instead, three years pass, and with his genocidal apparatus not fully in
place, Hitler barely survives a coup, while Jews cling to survival, and
England and France wonder whether the war is still worthwhile. The stage
is set for World War II to unfold far differently from the history we
know--courtesy of Harry Turtledove, wizard of "what if?," in the
continuation of his thrilling series: The War That Came Early.
Through the eyes of characters ranging from a brawling American serving
with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain to a woman who has seen
Hitler's evil face-to-face, The Big Switch rolls relentlessly forward
into 1941. As the Germans and their Polish allies slam into the gut of
the Soviet Union in the west, Japan pummels away in the east. Meanwhile,
in the trenches of France, French and Czech forces are outmanned but not
outfought by their Nazi enemy. Then the stalemate is shattered. In
England Winston Churchill dies suddenly, leaving the gray men wondering
who their real enemy is. And as the USSR makes peace with Japan, the
empire of the Rising Sun looks westward--its war with America about to
begin.
