All Our Tomorrows [Paperback]

Ted Allbeury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1990

What if Great Britain, weakened by the excesses of the welfare state and abandoned by contemptuous allies, were forced to welcome Soviet intervention?

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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From Publishers Weekly

Although Allbeury ( The Man with the President's Mind ) has been overtaken by the leaps and bounds of glasnost, this what-if thriller written in 1982 is still hard to put down. A lazy, divided, decadent and very weak Britain is forced into a "Treaty of Neutrality and Cooperation" with Russia, effectively making the U.K. an occupied country. The tale revolves around actions of the British Resistance, headed by ex-SAS Col. Harry Andrews, and the Soviet underground, led by a mysterious, charismatic Russian. Allbeury effectively portrays the grim, Orwellian life under the Russian boot: consumer-goods shortages, artistic and media repression and--after the Resistance becomes effective--brutal reprisals. If the author has an anti-French bias (the French President betrays the English) his pro-Americanism may surprise: the winning Resistance aims to establish a U.S.-style system. While most characters are stereotypical, and Allbeury flirts with sentimentality at the end, the book is still great fun, action- packed and a real page-turner.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr (July 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0445409142
• ISBN-13: 978-0445409149
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,760,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars What if?, July 11, 2001

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This review is from: All Our Tomorrows (Audio Cassette)

A good what if senario. What if the old Soviet Union did take over Great Britain. We find out how bad the Soviet leadership really was. Great plot that I don't think went very far. There is a lot of sexual references that turned my stomach but the vulgarity wasn't there. The reading was typical british with very good imitations of the various English Island( including scottish, Irish, and Welsh) dialects. However the Russian and American dialects could have used some work.