[Books] World War 2.1 by John Birmingham

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first book is WEAPONS OF CHOICE
time travel/alternate timeline fiction

In the near future, a UN naval taskforce is sent to deal with jihadist nutjobs who've taken over Indonesia and went on a killing spree
a ship with them has an experimental weapon, which screws up, drags them back to 1942, right into the middle of the US fleet heading to Midway....
now despite what ye may think I do not hate Americans *bonks Remodious afore he can open his trap!*
so as the 1940s' Americans see the UN fleet has Japanese vessels..they naturally open fire...
result is ugly mayhem which is quite disturbing far more than say, against an enemy, as friend vs friend by accident is much more ugly.

And history is re-written

it doesn't pull any punches, the author shows the rampant racism and other problems with the 1940s
meanwhile, the future folk have been in a decades long bloody war, inclduing nukes, against jihadists, so they now have a standing order to summarily execute any war criminals they find...and since the Japanese (who're the main enemy in 1st book) engage in widespread atrocities...well, muhaha!

good, gripping stuff. highly recommend 'em

Oh and in this timeline of the future, Prince Harry is a Captain of the SAS, who're with the UN Fleet and they end up kicking some serious Nazi arse, muhah!

also the future ships have one seriously kick arse wepaon they call a "mace", cruise missile, uses a controleld fusion reaction to accelerate tungsten rods ot insane velocities, sort of like, taking a "skeet" anti tank bomblet and mizing it with a shotgun, cluster bomb, and a nuke....
imagine taking a WW2 battleship, now, imagine it is instead a tin can...and you shoot the tin can with a shotgun loaded with BB shot or small buckshot from about 15 feet...tin can, is to the battleship...ouch!!

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Fox on the Rhine
The second half of WWII takes a decidedly different path in this speculative historical novel, which picks up the action in 1944 with Nazi Germany on the verge of defeat. The first historical twist is the assassination of Hitler by a group of his own generals, but when G?ring is also killed and the generals' attempt to assume power fails, Himmler takes the reins and quickly negotiates a peace treaty with the Russians. The second twist is the miraculous recovery of Rommel, who survives a near-fatal wound in North Africa and returns to the European theater to set the Allies back on their heels.

and Fox on the Front by Douglas Niles.
This World War II what-if novel picks up where Fox on the Rhine (an alternate history of the Battle of the Bulge) ended, with a disillusioned Field Marshal Rommel surrendering his armies to the Allies, but continuing operations against the Nazis under the tutelage of General Patton's forces. Soon President Roosevelt sees the value of founding a German rump state to help transfer power and reconstruct the country, just as the Allies did in Italy. As the new commander of the German Republican Army, Rommel operates alongside Patton's Third Army.

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Bastler
hm that sounds interesting!

however, short of some MAJOR change, the Wermacht was uttelry screwed in the West, the carnage done by Allied fighter bombers to the German Army's vehicles, especially by the Typhoons,Tempests and Mosquitos, was hellish. You should see gun camera footage of it, yikes!!
the British had the Typhoons working in a "cab rank" system, just like a line of taxis there was always LOTS of them int he iar to be claled in at need, and rotating with fresh ammo and crew, so it was orund the clock
plus the British used several of the battleships to fire deep inland, which were blowing the TIger and Panther tanks around like toys
combined, they absolutely ass r*ped the German armoured units.

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A German counter-attack, starting on 7 August, at Mortain, in the Falaise pocket, threatened Patton's breakout from the beachhead. This was repulsed by 2nd TAF Typhoons, which destroyed or damaged some 81 vehicles. In the Vire area, where the British Army was under attack, Typhoons flew 294 sorties on one day, firing 2,088 rockets and dropping 80 tons (73 tonnes) of bombs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, said of the Typhoons; "The chief credit in smashing the enemy's spearhead, however, must go to the rocket-firing Typhoon aircraft of the Second Tactical Air Force. The result of the strafing was that the enemy attack was effectively brought to a halt, and a threat was turned into a great victory."[49] On 24 October 1944, 146 Typhoon Wing attacked a building in Dordrecht where senior members of the German 15th Army staff were meeting; 17 staff officers and 55 other officers were killed.

in the "World War 2.1" books, the british "future" ship co-ordinates a massive bombing campaign as Hitler orders the entire SS armoured regiments in the West to attack the D-Day landings...the computer system lets them time the bomb dropping so EVERY bomb lands at the almost the exact same time, from EVERY heavy bomber the UK/US has, so like 2000 heavy bombers drop their load of about 10,000 tons of bombs over the advance, 10 miles long 2 miles across...like a nuke going off over wide area...only a handful of Germans survive