Designated Targets

Synopsis:

A 21st century naval taskforce is accidentally sent back to World War II.
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World War II

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Weapons of Choice
Designated Targets
Final Impact

Review of Designated Targets:

Designated Targets is the second volume in John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy (the first volume being Weapons of Choice). The story is picked up four months after the end of the previous novel, where, to recap, 21st century multi-national (principally American, British and Australian, but also including French, Indonesians and other nationalities) naval taskforce has somehow been accidentally transported back to 1942, and caused radical changes to the course of World War II.

Not only the Western Allies, but also the Germans, Japanese and Soviets have obtained knowledge of the original history, as well as advanced weapons systems and are now putting this information to use. The Germans and Soviets have signed a ceasefire and established a joint research program, traitors in each country have been purged, and all nations have revised their war plans taking into account the new techologies and what would have been the original course of history.

In the United States, a special zone has been established where 21st century laws applies. The purpose of this zone is prinicipally to manufacture advanced weapons systems, but it also acts as a magnet to those are uncomfortable with the social attitudes of the 1940s (which are as in the previous novel portrayed in an unflattering, but arguably realistic, way).

As with the first book, this is intelligently written, and about more than just a revised World War II. There is also social commentary, both about the 1940s and the present day, and even humor aimed at alternate history buffs.

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By John Birmingham

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It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.
The only question: Who’s going to drop it first?

The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.

Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles–all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.

With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.

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