End of the Beginning (Days of Infamy)

K A Burnette said you will love this in my opinion. If you are interested in military history, you will love this in my opinion. The what if factor will have you enthralled and the characters are well developed.. "Good read." according to tom youngblood. Very thought provoking. Some inaccuracies, i,e. An artillery Lt. would not normally command one howitzer. More likely a first Lt would command all the pieces in the battery. Made little difference to the story line though.More dialogue on the big picture politically would have been interesting. Good read.. End of the Beginning End of the Beginning is one of those books that can cause blood shot eyes. You do not want to put it down, because you want to know what is going to happen to the characters, be they heroes or villains. Mr. Turtledove give us readers characters that we know or we think we know. And to give Mr. Turtledove more credit he does not totally paint bad g

A plethora of characters, each with his or her own point of view, provide experiences in miniature that combine to paint a broad canvas of the titanic struggle, if at the cost of a fragmented narrative. Women are forced into prostitution as comfort women. . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly The human price of war, regardless of nationality, is the relentless focus of this chilling sequel to Turtledove's alternative history Days of Infamy (2004), in which the Japanese conquer Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the U.S. Japanese soldiers work POWs to death with heavy labor on insufficient rations. Times are hard for Americans under the occupation. All rights reserved. armed forces have a few tricks up their sleeve, notably a new kind of aircraft that can hold its own against the Zero. Both the Japanese and American militaries schem

A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. New recruits are enlisting and undergoing rigorous training exercises-all for the opportunity to strike back and drive the enemy from American soil. Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on dwindling resources. Steel factories and fuel refineries are operating around the clock. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. And families of Japanese origin find their loyalties divided. Meanwhile, across the United States, from Pensacola, Florida, to San Diego, California, the military is marshaling its forces