Experience the second entry in Germany's most successful alternate history series about a different World War 2!Panzers - Push for Victory by Tom Zola is thrilling, violent, and full of German cultural and military references.
The battle for Kursk is won, but only days later, the Red Army launches several massive counter-offensives. While the Allies are preparing to land in Sicily, where a wounded Franz Berning recovers in a hospital, Field Marshal von Manstein, Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front, takes a bold to counter-attack with two Panzer units in the middle of the Soviet operation to reconquer the industrial metropolis of Tula, considered the last bastion on the way back to Moscow. Lieutenant Josef Engelmann's regiment joins the Tula operation and shortly afterward faces fierce tank battles.Meanwhile, the world war rages with extreme severity in the Pacific when US Marine Raiders invade New Georgia in the Solomon Islands archipelago. Private First Class Tom Roebuck is thrown into the brutal battles fought between American and Japanese troops. When he takes a Japanese entrenchment, Roebuck finds a most alarming photograph …
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Mostly told from the point of view of individual soldiers and small units. Very little of the grand plan or of the political situation after Hitler's death. Still good combat scenes but so many of them that they are beginning to get a little old, even tiresome. There is also a curious side trip to a U.S. Marine Raider Battalion in the Solomon Islands. Not sure how that is supposed to tie in. Though the marines did find a photo of a group of Japanese soldiers posing with a couple of German generals. In my opinion details of individual and small unit combat in the Pacific just clutter up the storyline. I will read volume three but not soon. For one thing, I am tired of reading about the despicable, coward, Sgt. Franz Berning. If ever a character needed to be killed off....
A very interesting alternate timeline of WW2. The what ifs always let the mind explore various playgrounds in the mind. Great read, going to roll straight into the next book.