Anvil of Necessity

by Stuart Slade

A year after The Big One, the world tries to recover from the disasters of World War Two. In Eastern Europe, A German Field Marshal and a Russian General try to find a way of ending the fighting without further bloodshed. In the UK, a shipyard worker struggles to find a future for his family. Far away from Europe, Thailand faces a military crisis that forces a young woman to face challenges she had never imagined. In a world that has been ruined by the Second World War, everybody has to make decisions based on the harshest of rules, the anvil of necessity

Genres: Alternate History

Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Stuart Slade was Director of the Consulting Group at Forecast International in Newtown, CT, a company which provides Market Intelligence for the world's Aerospace/Defense industries. He was also the primary analyst for the company's Warships Forecast and Industrial & Marine Turbine Forecast. In other defense related areas, he wrote United States Strategic Bombers 1945-2012, Littoral Warfare: Ships and Systems, Navies in the Nuclear Age and Multinational Naval Operations. He was also the successful author of 14 published novels including an alternate history series that began with his 2007 novel The Big One. He died in December 2020.

Reviews

[Michael Ball · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely perfect! Stuart Slade is the grandmaster of alternative history. His Strategic Air Command series is totally believable. Each novel gives a fresh perspective on how our world could have turned out if Britain had agreed to an armistice with Nazi Germany leaving the USA and the Commonwealth to prosecute the war.