Review: We Will Fight Them On...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 20, 2013
Alternative histories especially the military variety are one of my guilty pleasures. They are either exceedingly dense betraying a need to justify the premise or are carelessly assembled stretching all credibility. Nuttall's tale of Britain once again single-handily facing off with the Nazis is neither. It is a highly entertaining tale that imagines Hitler invading the UK a few years after a different Second World War. The author employs Student, Skorzeny, Monty, Rommel, Liddell Hart, Himmler, Truman and even Kim Philby in this new conflict.The action moves from the trenches to the war rooms with ease and the battles are highly engaging. I do not normally enjoy sea or air warfare stories but they were very well done as were the tank and infantry set-tos. One minor complaint was some of the language. I could not imagine Otto Skorzeny saying, "They're going to be moving units around like crazy" or a German tanker commanding, "Call up air support and paste those guns." Both sound too contemporary and American. All can be excused if not taken too seriously and, if so, one will find comic book-like enjoyment in the pages.