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BREAKING POINT: Book 10 of the WW1 Alternate Series
Spring 1916.
After a long and grueling winter, during which both the Entente and the Central Powers have licked their wounds and prepared for the inevitable return of battle operations with the spring/summer weather, the fight is about to start again for supremacy in Europe.
The Anglo-French forces, along with the growing U.S. Army elements pouring into France, are launching their spring offensive on the Savenay Line protecting the port of St-Nazaire and the trapped half of the Kaiserliche Marine High Seas Fleet. With a three-to-one numerical advantage, the Entente is set to break through, and the Reich cannot do much except resist to the last man and the last bullet. In an overall strategic sense, the entire Western Front could collapse for the Germans, announcing a world of trouble for the Kaiser and his people to salvage the situation.
In the East, the effects of the disasters in Eastern Prussia and Galicia still ripple through the Russian Army, as its units struggle to stay in the field against the German and Austro-Hungarian forces pushing them ever deeper into Russia. General Hindenburg is about to launch his major offensive across the Niemen toward Vilna, Riga, and beyond, to St. Petersburg, Minsk, and Smolensk. The stakes are high, as the complete disintegration of the Russian state is at hand if the Tsar, now the new commander-in-chief, cannot put an end to the Central Power’s seemingly unstoppable offensive.
In the Mediterranean, the Entente is sailing to attack the Dardanelles, while the British consolidate south of Basra following their major defeat in Kut. The Turks are getting weary of war, while the Italians stay in their ports following the grave naval defeat at the Strait of Messina at the end of the summer.
In the meantime, the fighting soldiers, generals, sailors, and admirals battle to survive and try to defeat their enemies. In this fashion, men like George Patton, now newly arrived in France as part of the Indian Head Division, go head-on to the attack on the German Savenay fortification. In the air, the Red Baron faces Rolland Garros and Escadrille 36, while on he ground below, men like Erwin Rommel, Oskar Dantz, and Philippe Cren toil in the trench as they fight in mud and death.
In the East, men like Dimitri Fedorov of the 4th Hussar, General von Kneussl of the 11th Bavarian, or else Helmut Gottenburg of the 21st Landwehr Division, batter at the Russian Ostrog Fortification in the Western Ukraine
This is the story of the Great War as it might have been.
After a long and grueling winter, during which both the Entente and the Central Powers have licked their wounds and prepared for the inevitable return of battle operations with the spring/summer weather, the fight is about to start again for supremacy in Europe.
The Anglo-French forces, along with the growing U.S. Army elements pouring into France, are launching their spring offensive on the Savenay Line protecting the port of St-Nazaire and the trapped half of the Kaiserliche Marine High Seas Fleet. With a three-to-one numerical advantage, the Entente is set to break through, and the Reich cannot do much except resist to the last man and the last bullet. In an overall strategic sense, the entire Western Front could collapse for the Germans, announcing a world of trouble for the Kaiser and his people to salvage the situation.
In the East, the effects of the disasters in Eastern Prussia and Galicia still ripple through the Russian Army, as its units struggle to stay in the field against the German and Austro-Hungarian forces pushing them ever deeper into Russia. General Hindenburg is about to launch his major offensive across the Niemen toward Vilna, Riga, and beyond, to St. Petersburg, Minsk, and Smolensk. The stakes are high, as the complete disintegration of the Russian state is at hand if the Tsar, now the new commander-in-chief, cannot put an end to the Central Power’s seemingly unstoppable offensive.
In the Mediterranean, the Entente is sailing to attack the Dardanelles, while the British consolidate south of Basra following their major defeat in Kut. The Turks are getting weary of war, while the Italians stay in their ports following the grave naval defeat at the Strait of Messina at the end of the summer.
In the meantime, the fighting soldiers, generals, sailors, and admirals battle to survive and try to defeat their enemies. In this fashion, men like George Patton, now newly arrived in France as part of the Indian Head Division, go head-on to the attack on the German Savenay fortification. In the air, the Red Baron faces Rolland Garros and Escadrille 36, while on he ground below, men like Erwin Rommel, Oskar Dantz, and Philippe Cren toil in the trench as they fight in mud and death.
In the East, men like Dimitri Fedorov of the 4th Hussar, General von Kneussl of the 11th Bavarian, or else Helmut Gottenburg of the 21st Landwehr Division, batter at the Russian Ostrog Fortification in the Western Ukraine
This is the story of the Great War as it might have been.
354 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2026
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About the author
Max Lamirande
99 books10 followersMax Lamirande is a 47 years old author from Quebec, Canada.
His first book was published in 2020 with the title Blitzkrieg Europa, setting off a successful Alternate history book series on the Second World War.
To date, Lamirande has published at quite a fast rate, with 8 books published and the 9th one coming up in December and the 10th in January 2022. He also has started a new series on the Napoleonic Era.
Lamirande majored in history back in 1998 and has been writing on and off for the last 30 years or so. Wargamer, historian, an expert on World War Two and the Napoleonic Era.
THE BLITZKRIEG ALTERNATE SERIES
BY MAX LAMIRANDE
Book 1: Blitzkrieg Europa
Book 2: Battle Europa
Book 3: Struggle Europa
Book 4: Fortress Europa
Book 5: Stalemate Europa
Book 6: Staggering Europa
Book 7: Faltering Europa
Book 8: Crumbling Europa publish date December 26th, 2021
Book 9: Falling Europa (publish date to be confirmed, approx. Mar 2022)
THE BLITZKRIEG ALTERNATE SERIES (complementary of Blitzkrieg Alternate Series)
By Max Lamirande
Book 1: Blitzkrieg Pacific, January 28th, 2022
Book 2: TBD
Book 3: TBD
THE NAPOLEONIC ALTERNATE SERIES
By Max Lamirande
Book 1: Austerlitz Alternate, December 2021
Book 2: TBD, march 2022
Book 3: TBD, July 2022
His first book was published in 2020 with the title Blitzkrieg Europa, setting off a successful Alternate history book series on the Second World War.
To date, Lamirande has published at quite a fast rate, with 8 books published and the 9th one coming up in December and the 10th in January 2022. He also has started a new series on the Napoleonic Era.
Lamirande majored in history back in 1998 and has been writing on and off for the last 30 years or so. Wargamer, historian, an expert on World War Two and the Napoleonic Era.
THE BLITZKRIEG ALTERNATE SERIES
BY MAX LAMIRANDE
Book 1: Blitzkrieg Europa
Book 2: Battle Europa
Book 3: Struggle Europa
Book 4: Fortress Europa
Book 5: Stalemate Europa
Book 6: Staggering Europa
Book 7: Faltering Europa
Book 8: Crumbling Europa publish date December 26th, 2021
Book 9: Falling Europa (publish date to be confirmed, approx. Mar 2022)
THE BLITZKRIEG ALTERNATE SERIES (complementary of Blitzkrieg Alternate Series)
By Max Lamirande
Book 1: Blitzkrieg Pacific, January 28th, 2022
Book 2: TBD
Book 3: TBD
THE NAPOLEONIC ALTERNATE SERIES
By Max Lamirande
Book 1: Austerlitz Alternate, December 2021
Book 2: TBD, march 2022
Book 3: TBD, July 2022
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