MacArthur's Luck

by Steven Newton

January 1945: Days before FDR, Churchill and Stalin gather for the critical Yalta Conference to plan the final defeat of Nazi Germany and carve up post-war Europe, General George C. Marshall suffers a fatal heart attack. His eleventh-hour replacement is not Dwight Eisenhower, but Douglas MacArthur. From that moment forward, history begins traveling down a very different path, as American armies race headlong toward Berlin in an attempt to seize Hitler's capital ahead of the Red Army. From Captain Jackie Robinson in command of the lead elements of George Patton's Third Army forcing the Rhine River, to B-24 pilot Barry Goldwater fire-bombing Tokyo, MacArthur's Luck takes readers on a whirlwind adventure into the war that might have been. Will Commander Robert Heinlein manage to keep his cruiser afloat in the face of relentless kamikaze attacks at Okinawa? Can Walther Wenck trick the Americans and the Soviets into exchanging fire in eastern Austria? Back home in the US, will Negro-League sensations Josh Gibson, Buck Howard, and Satchel Paige break baseball's color line as the worldwide conflict grinds on? Meticulously researched, completely plausible and filled with memorable characters, this book will change forever the way you look at the end of World War Two. If you are a fan of alternate history, this first volume in The Fortunes of War series is for you.

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First published May 28, 2014