Review: Good, Solid Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
"The Fall of Night" is only too timely in view of recent events in the Ukraine.  Nuttall does a good job of tackling the genre of alternative history featuring an effete European Union and a United States overextended in the Middle East and Asia and unwilling to intervene in  a European conflict.  Add to this a Putin-like figure in Russia determined to reconstitute the Russian Empire and establish hegemony in Europe.  The fighting is vivid as is the characterization of the people engaged.  Without giving too much away, the ending is grimly realistic.  Not as deeply technical or immersed in tactical detail as some works in the genre, this book takes shots at multiculturalism and what happens when shortsighted political "leadership" fails to appreciate the nature of its enemies in the world, all through the eyes of ordinary citizens and soldiers.  There is some editing weakness, often with spelling or word choice, but it never seriously detracts from an otherwise enjoyable tale.