What if - you went to sleep as usual in 2004 - and woke up in 1934? What if - you had vital knowledge about the forthcoming Second World War, and could prove that you came from the future? What could you do to affect British policy, strategy, tactics and equipment? How might the course of the conflict be changed? And what if there was another throwback from the future - and he was working for the enemy? The novel follows the story of these two 'throwbacks' as they pit their wits against each other. A very different Second World War rages across Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, the North Atlantic and the Pacific, until its shocking conclusion.
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Firstly I'd like to `dip me lid' to Tony Williams for attempting to write an alternate history of the Second World War at all. The potential audience tend to be opinionated, critical and well informed so much kudos to him for the effort.
The premise is that a British historian goes to sleep in 2004 and wakes up in 1934. He convinces the powers that be that war is coming for which Britain will be inadequately prepared and in so doing initiates an altered and more thorough strategic purpose in British re-armament. The opening chapter is available to read on Tony Williams website www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/ I am a little bit wary of time travel scenarios but I found The Foresight War to be a satisfying read and a large and complicated plot is deftly handled, the narrative is well paced, there are surprising plot turns and the book is sufficiently gripping to be read at one sitting, there is also a great deal of detail and some laugh out loud humour. Other reviewers have taken issue with a few of Mr Williams interpretations of historical events but with subject matter as contentious as the Second World War this is inevitable. It is often the case that a well informed historian can proceed from sound scholarship to a completely different conclusion about an event from another well informed historian also proceeding from sound scholarship on the same event. The Foresight War works well, not least because Tony underlines the very prescient point that WW2 was a conflict between cultures as well as militaries and was won and lost not only by armed forces but by the systems which created them. I have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone interested in the period.
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Close, but no Cigar,
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A novel of an alternative World War 2 by Anthony G Williams
What if - you went to sleep as usual in 2004 - and woke up in 1934? What if - you had vital knowledge about the forthcoming Second World War, and could prove that you came from the future? What could you do to affect British policy, strategy, tactics and equipment? How might the course of the conflict be changed? And what if there was another throwback from the future - and he was working for the enemy? The novel follows the story of these two 'throwbacks' as they pit their wits against each other. A very different Second World War rages across Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, the North Atlantic and the Pacific, until its shocking conclusion. ----------- Not too awful. Not too good. Some howlers ... the author has Barbarossa starting in May and repeats the urban legend about how the Balkan campaign was the reason for the delay, not the spring rains as we all know to be the case. It seems as if he has also ignored the materiel and logistics constraints of the pre-war German economy with special relevance to what they could produce ... that is, he has some inkling, for example, that they couldn't produce enough trucks for motorised supply but has them creating 20 Panzer Divisions with APCs (not haltracks, either), for example. He also has them producing hundreds of U-Boats without the Brits noticing ... not that it really makes any difference ... And, for example, he has a British AEW warned USAAC decimate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in P-40's. And Chamberlain resigns in favour of Churchill on the say so of the uptimer, but no hint that he resigned as much because he was dying of stomach cancer. Those are just some of the silly things that I recognise. Some of the weapons development stuff (the author seems to something of a specialist on this!) may be debatable, but I really don't know enough to be entirely sure. If I had to sum it up in a sentence ... "The Empire Strikes Back, or The British Empire Wins WW2 Singlehandedly"
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Down to Earth and believable,
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Detailed, yet completely plausible outcomes.
The author seems to have read Churchill's six-volume History of Second World war. As the author points out correctly, 1934 was the watershed year when Empire started losing its edge. Small changes like Besal guns, sloped armour, etc. made a big change militarily. So does political changes like defending Norway while abandoning France, shooting straight for Moscow, avoiding declaring war against USA, etc.
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