Review: Awful
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2012
The _Second Great War_ is awful.  The plot is hackneyed, the alternate history is juvenile, and the author's military and scientific knowledge are pure stereotype devoid of research.  Machine guns and aircraft automatic cannon are not the same.  A mustard gas cloud does not follow the upper works of a moving warship, let alone a warship at battle speed.  A US corps or field army deployed in Cameroon, or even the Bight of Benin, could not make even an unopposed motor march to southern Libya (today or in 1940), let alone do so by surprise.See Stuart Slade's _The Big One_ for an example of military realism and accuracy in otherwise mediocre alternate history (the most chilling depiction of nuking the Nazis I've ever read), and Timothy Ross' _Lucky Strike Green_ for an effective example of how historical and political research can lift a mediocre alternate history into a good one.Author Alex Night should find a wargamer of the historian time before he writes anything more about war.