Review: An intriguing alternate history scenario
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
In this interesting novel, author Conroy prognosticates that Hitler scrupulously avoids committing Germany to war with the United States after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.  As a result, the US goes aggressively after Japan even more than in actual history, but leaves Germany alone.  Britain is cowed and neutral, and German troops garrison certain parts of Canada, where the Germans build up troop concentrations on the North American mainland.  War with the US is inevitable and this novel is the story of that war.The premise of this novel is not especially believable.  America would never, not ever, have allowed Germany to garrison parts of Canada.  Nor would the Canadians themselves have stood for this, even if Britain itself acquiesced, as is the premise in this story.These inconsistencies aside, this is an enjoyable and engrossing novel.  War on the North American mainland is an intriguing and interesting scenario, and Conroy does a decent job of making it seem possible, albeit unlikely.  This one is a good read.  Recommended.  RJB.