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Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early)
Series: The War That Came Early
Volume: 4
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0345524659
Pages: 432 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
Price: $28.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
Coup d'Etat by Harry Turtledove

Description: In 1941, a treaty between England and Germany unravels—and so does a different World War II.

In Harry Turtledove’s mesmerizing alternate history of World War II, the choices of men and fate have changed history. Now it is the winter of 1941. As the Germans, with England and France on their side, slam deep into Russia, Stalin’s terrible machine fights for its life. But the agreements of world leaders do not touch the hearts of soldiers. The war between Germany and Russia is rocked by men with the courage to aim their guns in a new direction.

England is the first to be shaken. Following the suspicious death of Winston Churchill, with his staunch anti-Nazi views, a small cabal begins to imagine the unthinkable in a nation long famous for respecting the rule of law. With civil liberties hanging by a thread, a conspiracy forms against the powers that be. What will this daring plan mean for the European war as a whole?

Meanwhile, in America, a woman who has met Hitler face-to-face urges her countrymen t

Also in this series are West and East, The Big Switch, Two Fronts Return to the Harry Turtledove page.

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