A Mighty Endeavor eBook Stuart Slade
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When the Second World War started, the countries that made up the British Commonwealth agreed that if Britain was forced to surrender, the Dominions would carry on the war by themselves.
Now, the unthinkable has happened and a theoretical possibility has become an ugly reality.
Britain is out of the war.
The Commonwealth is on its own.
How will the Dominions shoulder the burden of fighting Germany? How can the Commonwealth survive when its military, economic and political center has been stripped away?
In a world that is suddenly filled with unexpected enemies and unlikely friends, the Commonwealth has a desperate struggle on its hands. Just to survive will be hard enough. To survive and win is truly A Mighty Endeavor
A Mighty Endeavor eBook Stuart Slade
I started with this book and went on to Winter Warriors and The Big One, and this review applies to those other books, as well. Mr Slade writes well; his plotting is solid. I found the development of events gripping and engaging. His character development is adequate, and with a few characters better than that, but he uses a large number of focal characters, some of whom he kills off, so the lack of a deep reliance on a single central character is not a problem. He has posited an alternate history of WW2 that is perhaps unlikely, but does not defy the imagination. In brief, During the Battle of France in our timeline, Halifax in London stages a cabinet coup, ousts Churchill, and seeks an armistice with the Germans, royally screwing over the French, who continue to fight until overwhelmed. The first book, A Mighty Endeavor, introduces an interesting fantasy (or, if you will, religious) element of pro-Allied analysts in DC and Geneva. A lot of the book centers on what happens in the overseas British Dominions, especially India (in his universe already a self-governing dominion) and Australia, and in Thailand. It is gripping. Halfway through the first book, I bought the others that are available. (For some reason, the 4th book, Anvil of Necessity is not available as an e-book.) Mr Slade does have some interesting blind spots; I was struck by a career Navy NCO in Book 3 (The Big One), who hates Democrats. Not impossible, but maybe a little anachronistic--how likely is it that a career military guy in WW2 would hate the party that tried desperately during the 30's to re-arm to prepare the US for WW2 in the face of determined opposition from the isolationist GOP in Congress? Still, a thoroughly worthwhile read.Mr Slade is clearly an aficionado of hardware. There are long, loving, detailed descriptions of various pieces of military equipment, especially airplanes. The guy LOVES airplanes. But heck, I'm a fan of David Weber, so who am I to complain--at least a lot of these planes were really built (or at least designed, or suggested). If it's not your thing, you can skim the details and still enjoy the books.
A word of warning. There is one egregious, annoying problem with at least the first three of these books; specifically, a gross failure of copy-editing. It is not the worst case of this I've ever seen in these books published without the support of a major publisher, but it's up there and it is grating. Sentences are sometimes repeated, or half of one is repeated, or some words are clearly omitted, or words are spelled as homonyms ("lead" the metal is invariably the way "led" the past tense verb is spelled; "their" for "there," etc). That's mostly annoying because a simple read-through by the author would have prevented many of these boo-boos. (Not the "lead" for "led" problem--clearly the author just can't spell that word.) (Really, this is an indictment of the big publishers--why did they pass over so interesting a series of books?) In any event, these books are so good that I am willing to put up with the editing issues for the joy of exploring this alternate history.
And if you are a fan of this genre, I recommend you do the same.
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A Mighty Endeavor eBook Stuart Slade Reviews
I first discovered Mr. Slade's books when I was trolling for alternate-history books. This book is the continuation for an amazing series which I was unsure of; I always have problem with poorly-edited books, and frequently fix them up with a pencil on my own copy. This last book ("Endeavor") has seen the editing improve sharply, and this allows me to enjoy reading!
As the series has gone along Mr. Slade has confused me thoroughly, and sometimes you don't find out some person or action until much later, as in another book later, but book plots and dialog, really, all parts of the book, are markedly improved.
When I go to , the author is one I look for, every time! I'm only a few pages into this book,I am pleased to see the editing develop so much; it makes for a better read... he's already pulled a fast one, leaving me baffled in his wake.
This is an author to watch. I check every time in hopes. While we're here, can somebody explain to me the source and meaning of "septics," as refers to Americans? Thanks a lot!
I've read three of the Stuart Slade books of alternate history and found them to very interesting. They need to have some professional editing to make them just a little better. The stories themselves are very good. The author has a keen knowledge of aircraft and other military equipment of the era. I plan to read the rest of the series.
Another entertaining read by Stuart Slade.
This book details the start of his alternate history series when Lord Halifax leads a coup, throwing Churchill out, and signs an armitice with Hitler, leaving the rest of the British Commonwealth on its own.
The book is fast moving with good characters.
He does his historical research on events, people, and technology of the time and it shows.
I want to know why Baen is not publishing him. His works are right up their alley.
I am waiting for the novel that tells the story of when the Royal Navy grabbed the Royal Family to keep the German occupation forces from taking them prisoner and every ship that could sail ran for Canada and the United States while fighting the Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine every mile. And the British Army was almost destroyed keeping the Wehrmacht Heer and SS from taking the ports till the fleet had sailed.This has been referenced in his earlier works.
Read this one before " The Big One " you do not have too but it makes the sequence of the story over 7-8 years smoothly to flow along and follow the changes in different Commonwealth countries and to see the start of the different outcome of them in WWII.
For readers from other countries you will have to be your own judge on what might have been your outcome it will blow your mind on the possibilities.
This is a really great story line and it puts you on the edge of your seat with the story line, there is the right number of characters to keep track of and the story runs smoothly together with the next one.
I read Mr. Slade's other book (The Big One) first. I enjoyed this tremendously - a great premise, outstanding plot, believable characters - first-rate alternate history,
Personally (and don't get mad, Harry), I think Stuart Slade writes better AH than Harry Turtledove (at least, based on Harry's current work).
The only reason I don't give this five stars is the editing. While the repeated sentences and strange omissions (areas where, based on context, sections f paragraphs are missing) were disconcerting, you can still follow the story. The problem is that you are fully immersed in this alternate 1940-41, and then your immersion hits the shoals of the repeated sentence or the sandbar of the missing text, etc.
And this is the second edition.
That said, I eagerly await the next book in this series - even though I know how this version of WWII ends (via The Big One).
I started with this book and went on to Winter Warriors and The Big One, and this review applies to those other books, as well. Mr Slade writes well; his plotting is solid. I found the development of events gripping and engaging. His character development is adequate, and with a few characters better than that, but he uses a large number of focal characters, some of whom he kills off, so the lack of a deep reliance on a single central character is not a problem. He has posited an alternate history of WW2 that is perhaps unlikely, but does not defy the imagination. In brief, During the Battle of France in our timeline, Halifax in London stages a cabinet coup, ousts Churchill, and seeks an armistice with the Germans, royally screwing over the French, who continue to fight until overwhelmed. The first book, A Mighty Endeavor, introduces an interesting fantasy (or, if you will, religious) element of pro-Allied analysts in DC and Geneva. A lot of the book centers on what happens in the overseas British Dominions, especially India (in his universe already a self-governing dominion) and Australia, and in Thailand. It is gripping. Halfway through the first book, I bought the others that are available. (For some reason, the 4th book, Anvil of Necessity is not available as an e-book.) Mr Slade does have some interesting blind spots; I was struck by a career Navy NCO in Book 3 (The Big One), who hates Democrats. Not impossible, but maybe a little anachronistic--how likely is it that a career military guy in WW2 would hate the party that tried desperately during the 30's to re-arm to prepare the US for WW2 in the face of determined opposition from the isolationist GOP in Congress? Still, a thoroughly worthwhile read.
Mr Slade is clearly an aficionado of hardware. There are long, loving, detailed descriptions of various pieces of military equipment, especially airplanes. The guy LOVES airplanes. But heck, I'm a fan of David Weber, so who am I to complain--at least a lot of these planes were really built (or at least designed, or suggested). If it's not your thing, you can skim the details and still enjoy the books.
A word of warning. There is one egregious, annoying problem with at least the first three of these books; specifically, a gross failure of copy-editing. It is not the worst case of this I've ever seen in these books published without the support of a major publisher, but it's up there and it is grating. Sentences are sometimes repeated, or half of one is repeated, or some words are clearly omitted, or words are spelled as homonyms ("lead" the metal is invariably the way "led" the past tense verb is spelled; "their" for "there," etc). That's mostly annoying because a simple read-through by the author would have prevented many of these boo-boos. (Not the "lead" for "led" problem--clearly the author just can't spell that word.) (Really, this is an indictment of the big publishers--why did they pass over so interesting a series of books?) In any event, these books are so good that I am willing to put up with the editing issues for the joy of exploring this alternate history.
And if you are a fan of this genre, I recommend you do the same.
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