The Moscow Option: An Alternative Second World War PDF
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W 4r^ P*1 11r *?TnTr •• •" * MOSCOW OPTION AN SECOND WORLD WAR ALTERNATIVE DOWNING DAVID :qok c=i_i_ib•• • Convincingalternate history of the Second World War # The ThirdReich's realoptions %How thefallofMoscow changes the course ofthe War This provocative alternate history looks at the Second World War from a new angle - what might have hap- pened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic consequences of opportunities taken and examines the grotesque possibilities ofa Third Reich triumphant. On 30 September 1941, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow and the Soviet Union collapses. Although Russian resistance continues, German ambit- ion multiplies after this signal suc- cess and offensives are launched in Africa, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Hitler's armies, assured ofvictory,make theirleader'sdreams reality and Allied hopes of recovery seem almost hopelessly doomed. David Downing convincingly blends actual history with the stim- ulating world of alternate events. The Moscow Option is a chilling reminder that history might easily have been very different. David Downing is a noted histori- an ofWorld War II. His other works include TheDevil's Virtuosos: German Generals at War, 1939-45. MOSCOW THE OPTION MOSCOW THE OPTION AN ALTERNATIVE SECOND WORLD WAR David Downing Greenhill Books, London Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania This book club edition ofTheMoscow Option is manufacturedunderlicense from Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited, London and Stackpole Books, 5067 RitterRoad, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USA Copyright © David Downing, 1979, andwith revisions, 2001 The moral right ofthe authorhas been asserted All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication maybe reproduced, storedin a retrievalsystemortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, without thewrittenpermission ofthe Publisher. ISBN 1-85367-463-X Typeset byMHLTypesetting Limited, Coventry Manufactured in the USA CONTENTS List ofMaps 7 Alternative Wars - An Introduction 9 Prologue - 4 August 1941 13 1 'Moscow before the snow falls' 22 2 Premature Crusade 42 3 Sayonara 58 4 Winter 68 5 The Fall ofMalta 90 6 'The pyramids are larger than I imagined' 103 7 Tsushima Revisited 125 8 FallSiegfried 137 9 Feeding the Flood, Raising the Dykes 152 10 High Noon offPanama 171 11 Panzers Three Miles fromJerusalem 187 Epilogue - 12 September 1942 209 Notes and References 218
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