The Big One eBook Stuart Slade
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Summer1941. -- Europe is being torn apart by a war which nobody can win.
Nazi Germany occupies Europe from the Pyrenees to the Volga.
In the East, Russian and American troops fight to stop the German Army from breaking through.
In the West, American carriers prowl the Atlantic, hurling their midnight-blue fighter-bombers against any target they find.
Nothing can stop the madness. -- America has one last hand left to play...
A fleet of the largest bombers the world has ever seen, and a plan to bring the war to an end in a single terrible blow. -- In a world gone to hell, the only option left is...THE BIG ONE
The Big One eBook Stuart Slade
The Big One is part of Stuart Slade's alternative history that includes Winter Warriors, A Mighty Endeavor and Conrad's Eye. The series is well written in the main with plausible alternative history. Slade has clearly read John Lukac's "Five Days In June, 1940" describing the crisis facing Winston Churchill after the debacle in France and the elements in British government who wanted to make an accommodation with Hitler. Slade's description of air operations as well as operational and tactical ground combat are very well done. On the other hand, he knows nothing about warships. In a major section, an aircraft carrier suffers bomb damage and not unusually, catches fire. Slade doesn't understand that fire fighting equipment and the ship's fire mains in particular are very highly redundant and don't depend on the ship's fresh water systems at all. It appears that Slade sat down with a former sailor who mentioned many shipboard systems but Slade didn't clearly understand how they were interrelated.As others have noted, there are jarring typographical errors that need a good editor but those shortcomings aren't deadly. This is a good read and I will search out more of Slade's work.
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The Big One eBook Stuart Slade Reviews
"The Big One" is the first book in an interesting alternative history series being developed by Stuart Slade. The "What if?" that makes up the premise of this novel is that, like in real history, Lord Halifax in Great Britain offers during 1939 to topple Winston Churchill's government and make a separate peace with Germany. However, unlike in real history, the Germans decide to act upon this offer, with the result that Great Britain effectively leaves the conflict early on, allowing for Germany to focus wholly eastward on the Soviet Union. This leads to a bloody conflict of which we have only hints in the novel, culminating in the devastating and horrifying "Big One" - a mass nuclear strike on Germany.
The author of this book is a man who has worked for years in the defense industry of the United States, and it shows - the technical aspects of the book are impeccable, along with much of the research of the setting. In particular, he plans out the "Big One" in detail, and uses his experience as a nuclear targeter during the Cold War to detail the strike in horrifying accuracy.
It's in two areas that this book is flawed, which greatly reduced my enjoyment of this novel. The first is that the characterization is only so-so in the novel; not bad, but not particularly amazing either. The novel essentially exists to explore the "Big One", its effects, and the aftermath of it.
The second is, as mentioned by other reviewers, the massive number of grammatical issues, ranging from bad sentence structure to bad punctuation, that constantly jar the reader out of Suspension of Disbelief. Apparently, though, the author has made considerably efforts to have this improved in future novels, and presumably the second edition will be much improved in this area.
It is an interesting novel, and the start to an interesting series.
This book wasn't the most well written book I've read lately, but it was very compelling for some reason. I really enjoyed the characters in the book and really got to care about what happened to them. Some of the events in the book were a little far fetched or smoothed over a little much, but I thoughht the book was pretty well thought out. The events described here, the nuclear destruction of Germany, are disturbing, and this is one of the things that treated matter-of-factly, like it easn't a big deal, when it should have been horrifying to anyone involved. That's my major issue with this book, that it should have taken thinga a little more seriously.
On par with Turtledove's "A war that came early" series.
As a WWII aircraft geek since I was 12, this book is wonderfully accurate on aircraft and ships. It is well written with great characters.
HOWEVER, echoing most of the other reviews, buy a friend some pizza and beers and have them edit it. I usually overlook the occasional typo but this book had obvious cut-and-past errors. Parts of sentences are pasted into the middle of other sentences and confuse the flow that a typo does not.
Stephen King's book "On writing" gives a good guide to editing. Edit 3 times and 2nd draft = 1st draft - 10%.
The plot premise is good, but the author tries to encompass too much and ends up not really fleshing things out. It almost seems like at times he lost his focus and the plot wandered. The poor editing of the book was particularly annoying and interrupted the flow of the read. The ending was predictable, and tried to tie up the loose ends, which it did to quite an extent. Overall, it was an okay read to kill time while flying across country.
The Big One is part of Stuart Slade's alternative history that includes Winter Warriors, A Mighty Endeavor and Conrad's Eye. The series is well written in the main with plausible alternative history. Slade has clearly read John Lukac's "Five Days In June, 1940" describing the crisis facing Winston Churchill after the debacle in France and the elements in British government who wanted to make an accommodation with Hitler. Slade's description of air operations as well as operational and tactical ground combat are very well done. On the other hand, he knows nothing about warships. In a major section, an aircraft carrier suffers bomb damage and not unusually, catches fire. Slade doesn't understand that fire fighting equipment and the ship's fire mains in particular are very highly redundant and don't depend on the ship's fresh water systems at all. It appears that Slade sat down with a former sailor who mentioned many shipboard systems but Slade didn't clearly understand how they were interrelated.
As others have noted, there are jarring typographical errors that need a good editor but those shortcomings aren't deadly. This is a good read and I will search out more of Slade's work.
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