num_pages: 368
description: It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass destruction.Nuclear warheads, rocket-propelled grenades, AK-47s, computer-guided missiles - all bets are off as the major powers of 1942 scramble to be the first to wield the weapons of tomorrow against their enemies. The whole world now knows of the Allied victory in 1945, and the collapse of communism decades later. But that was the first time around.With the benefit of their newly acquired knowledge, Stalin and Hitler rapidly change strategies. A Russian-German ceasefire leaves the Führer free to bring the full weight of his vaunted Nazi war machine down on England, while in the Pacific, Japan launches an invasion of Australia, and Admiral Yamamoto schemes to seize an even greater prize . . . Hawaii.Even in the United States the newcomers from the future are greeted with a combination of enthusiasm and fear. Suspicion leads to hatred and erupts into violence.Suddenly it's a whole new war, with high-tech, high-stakes international manipulations from Tokyo to D.C. to the Kremlin. As the world trembles on the brink of annihilation, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Tojo confront extreme choices and a future rife with possibilities - all of them apocalyptic.
language: English
title: Designated Targets
titlecomplete: Designated Targets (Axis of Time, #2)
characters: Lieutenant Rachel Nguyen, General George Marshall, Julia Duffy, General Douglas MacArthur, Able Seaman Michael Molloy, Reichchancellor Adolf Hitler, Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Major Pavel Ivanon, President Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel Paul Brasch, Joseph Stalin, Captain Roger Müller, Rosanna Natoli, Commander Daniel Black, James "Slim Jim" Davidson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Petty Officer Vincente Rogas, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Captain Jane Willet, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, Colonel J.L. Jones, Lieutent Wally Curtis, Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, Captain Karen Halabi, Admiral Phillip Kolhammer, Winston Churchill, Reichsminister Josef Göbbels, Laventry Beria, Maria O'Brien, Detective Sergeant Lou Cherry, Admiral Ernest King, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Major Margie Francois, William Stephenson, Harold "Kim" Philby, His Royal Highness Major Harry Windsor, Chief Petty Officer Eddie Mohr, John Curtin, Captain Mike Judge, Isoroku Yamamoto, Brigadier Michael Barnes, Commander Jisaku Hidaka
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action, War, Thriller, Time Travel, Alternate History, Military Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 3445
series: Axis of Time
publisher: Del Rey