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1932: An alternate history
What if the first shots of the Second World War were fired not in Europe, but in North America?
In this gripping alternate history, the Great Depression pushes President Herbert Hoover to a desperate decision—war. Spurred on by the enigmatic fascist William Dudley Pelley, Hoover chooses Canada as the target, launching a surprise invasion based on the real War Plan Red. The result is a global shockwave.
From poison gas in Halifax to Canadian troops storming American cities, from Nazis in Germany seizing the moment to rise and strike west, to Japan launching a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, 1932 traces the chillingly plausible escalation into a full-scale world war—years ahead of schedule.
Told through interwoven chapters of battlefield courage, political intrigue, and sweeping strategic shifts, this narrative brings real-world figures—Hoover, Hitler, Churchill, MacDonald, and Tojo — to the edge of an unimaginable alternate reality. Canadian cities burn, U-boats stalk the Atlantic, and Britain scrambles to prepare for a war it didn’t expect… but must now survive.
As alliances shift and the Atlantic world fractures, one question
Can the tide be turned before the darkness consumes it all?
In this gripping alternate history, the Great Depression pushes President Herbert Hoover to a desperate decision—war. Spurred on by the enigmatic fascist William Dudley Pelley, Hoover chooses Canada as the target, launching a surprise invasion based on the real War Plan Red. The result is a global shockwave.
From poison gas in Halifax to Canadian troops storming American cities, from Nazis in Germany seizing the moment to rise and strike west, to Japan launching a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, 1932 traces the chillingly plausible escalation into a full-scale world war—years ahead of schedule.
Told through interwoven chapters of battlefield courage, political intrigue, and sweeping strategic shifts, this narrative brings real-world figures—Hoover, Hitler, Churchill, MacDonald, and Tojo — to the edge of an unimaginable alternate reality. Canadian cities burn, U-boats stalk the Atlantic, and Britain scrambles to prepare for a war it didn’t expect… but must now survive.
As alliances shift and the Atlantic world fractures, one question
Can the tide be turned before the darkness consumes it all?
170 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 31, 2025
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July 29, 2025
Alternative Junk
I genuinely like alternative history but this book is alternative junk. Alternative history has to have some semblance of relevance to factual history. This book has far too many errors to make it believable. For example, sonar for ships in 1933? Meetings at Camp David before it was even created. New aircraft designed and built in months, not years. Volunteer militia defeating regular army and marines. What nonsense. The list is endless. This book was clearly written by someone from Canada or the UK who played fast and loose with history and the facts.
I genuinely like alternative history but this book is alternative junk. Alternative history has to have some semblance of relevance to factual history. This book has far too many errors to make it believable. For example, sonar for ships in 1933? Meetings at Camp David before it was even created. New aircraft designed and built in months, not years. Volunteer militia defeating regular army and marines. What nonsense. The list is endless. This book was clearly written by someone from Canada or the UK who played fast and loose with history and the facts.
February 4, 2026
Bloody Awful
In all my life I have never before given a one star review. This book earned it in multiple ways. The types and quantities of war machinery, from road vehicles to tanks to aircraft is simply absurd. Towards the end Japan using one small carrier and one fleet carrier managed to duplicate the 1941 attack which used six fleet carriers with nearly ten times as many aircraft. The military use tanks, aircraft, flamethrowers, and other tactics like mass parachute drops which would not be even remotely possible in 1932-33. Hoover who was a devout Quaker is depicted as a power hungry anti-Semite willing to support Hitler and copy his policies. It goes down hill from there. There are many good alternate war scenarios, this is not one of them! Save your money for authors who have a clue what they are writing about!
In all my life I have never before given a one star review. This book earned it in multiple ways. The types and quantities of war machinery, from road vehicles to tanks to aircraft is simply absurd. Towards the end Japan using one small carrier and one fleet carrier managed to duplicate the 1941 attack which used six fleet carriers with nearly ten times as many aircraft. The military use tanks, aircraft, flamethrowers, and other tactics like mass parachute drops which would not be even remotely possible in 1932-33. Hoover who was a devout Quaker is depicted as a power hungry anti-Semite willing to support Hitler and copy his policies. It goes down hill from there. There are many good alternate war scenarios, this is not one of them! Save your money for authors who have a clue what they are writing about!
February 18, 2026
1 Division a month .a ships a week and Spitfire a day ...2 on Sundays .
God knows where we got these troops/tanks/ships and weapons from so quickly, but we did , I still enjoyed the story, though . Quick pace and straight to the point , the only minor point , there is a limited view from the trenches. A little about the commander on the East Coast, a small cameo of some names from the Pacific coast , but I thought it needed more stories of the protagonists from the actual trenches , I will read more of the series as its a "what if" scenario that is new to me .
God knows where we got these troops/tanks/ships and weapons from so quickly, but we did , I still enjoyed the story, though . Quick pace and straight to the point , the only minor point , there is a limited view from the trenches. A little about the commander on the East Coast, a small cameo of some names from the Pacific coast , but I thought it needed more stories of the protagonists from the actual trenches , I will read more of the series as its a "what if" scenario that is new to me .
November 20, 2025
then and now
it was nice to compare what you know now and what you know no w. but I didn't know who the guy that had do with the planning in the. first part of war direction of the war.,
it was nice to compare what you know now and what you know no w. but I didn't know who the guy that had do with the planning in the. first part of war direction of the war.,
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