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The Tremendous Hours: How Russia Fell in 1942
THE TREMENDOUS HOURSHow Russia Fell in 1942What if Russia had fallen in 1942?At the height of the Second World War, a mysterious stranger arrives at the German headquarters at Rastenburg. He is not a general. He has no known military career. No one knows where he came from. Yet within hours, the German High Command is listening to him. He speaks with extraordinary certainty. Crimea will fall. Kerch will be taken.
The Caucasus will be seized. The great oilfields of Maikop, Grozny and Baku will be captured. Finland will move. Moscow will fall. The armies of the East will be encircled. And the war will change. As orders race across Europe, armies begin moving according to a strategy that seems to anticipate the entire battlefield at once. Parachute formations descend upon oilfields. German and Finnish forces advance through the north.
Divisions are withdrawn from France. Africa enters the calculation. Engineers build roads, bridges and refineries behind the advancing armies. At the centre of it all stands the mysterious New Führer, calmly studying an enormous map while the greatest military campaign in history begins to take a radically different course. Part alternate history, part military drama, part political theatre, The Tremendous Hours unfolds through rapid scenes, commands, reports, maps and confrontations inside the rooms where history is being rewritten.
This is not the story of how Germany almost won the war. It is the story of what might have happened if it had found the man who knew exactly how to win it. The map changes. The armies move. The hours become tremendous.
The Caucasus will be seized. The great oilfields of Maikop, Grozny and Baku will be captured. Finland will move. Moscow will fall. The armies of the East will be encircled. And the war will change. As orders race across Europe, armies begin moving according to a strategy that seems to anticipate the entire battlefield at once. Parachute formations descend upon oilfields. German and Finnish forces advance through the north.
Divisions are withdrawn from France. Africa enters the calculation. Engineers build roads, bridges and refineries behind the advancing armies. At the centre of it all stands the mysterious New Führer, calmly studying an enormous map while the greatest military campaign in history begins to take a radically different course. Part alternate history, part military drama, part political theatre, The Tremendous Hours unfolds through rapid scenes, commands, reports, maps and confrontations inside the rooms where history is being rewritten.
This is not the story of how Germany almost won the war. It is the story of what might have happened if it had found the man who knew exactly how to win it. The map changes. The armies move. The hours become tremendous.
