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The Phases of Mars #2
To Slip the Surly Bonds
Thirteen authors. Thirteen aviation stories that never happened.
Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Americans had fought on the side of Germany in World War I? What if Germany had invested in naval aviation in World War II? What if Russia had started World War III?
Wonder no more, for these questions, along with many others, are answered within the pages of this book. Told by a variety of authors, like Sarah Hoyt, Richard Fox, and Kacey Ezell, To Slip the Surly Bonds deals with aviation warfare that never happened in our world…but easily could have.
Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Americans had fought on the side of Germany in World War I? What if Germany had invested in naval aviation in World War II? What if Russia had started World War III?
Wonder no more, for these questions, along with many others, are answered within the pages of this book. Told by a variety of authors, like Sarah Hoyt, Richard Fox, and Kacey Ezell, To Slip the Surly Bonds deals with aviation warfare that never happened in our world…but easily could have.
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363 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 10, 2019
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Chris Kennedy
138 books163 followersA Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 50 books and published more than 400 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com.
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June 1, 2020
So, this is the second book in the Phases of Mars anthology, and just as the first volume focused on alternate history naval warfare short stories, book 2 focuses on alternate history air warfare stories. I can't say that I found the collection as broadly enjoyable as the first book, and part of the problem is that there isn't as much... variation in the concepts, and several of the stories involve fairly minor variations from our history, but there's still plenty of good stuff here. Anyway, let's go through story by story.
Friends in High Places by Joelle Presby and Patrick Doyle - 8/10 stars - the sequel to "A Safe Wartime Posting" from the previous collection, following his adventures in German Kamerun, Lt. Marshall has taken an interest in aviation and he's sent to Germany to learn with the Imperial German Air Service and observe its war effort against the French and British. Of course, Chief Hays is also along to watch Lt. Marshall's back and keep him and his friends out of trouble. On the one hand, this story provides a first-hand view of the strange early days of air combat on the western front. On the other hand, it's not as funny as its predecessor, and apart from the fact that a handful of American aviators are present for the first dogfights, it's not really that different from real history. Still, the characters and the historical realism are good enough to make it a worthy addition.
The Dark'ning Storms by Rob Howell - 8/10 stars - oh look, another sequel to a story in the first collection. In this story, also set in 1915, though in the universe of Rob Howell's story from the previous book where the U.S. and Spain didn't fight until 1908. A few years later, Roosevelt is nearing the end of his second term and thanks to his support the Navy has acquired the world's first aircraft carrier, but it's widely criticized as a boondoggle of limited military use, so Roosevelt sends the carrier to conduct an intense neutrality patrol in the eastern Atlantic, during the course of which, the aviators happen to observe an ocean liner headed straight for a German submarine, and the captain must make the difficult decision of how and whether to intervene. Like his previous story which illustrated the transition between the pre-dreadnaughts and dreadnaught battleships, Dark'ning Storm is also a study of a transitional period, though really it's more focused on naval warfare than air warfare. Still, an interesting story in an interesting universe.
Perchance to Dream by Sarah Hoyt - 7/10 stars - Manfred von Richtofen is troubled by dreams of his own death and visions of the future that awaits Germany, he feels that he must choose between fighting his part in a war that he no longer believes Germany can win, and doing his part to save Germany from a worse fate. It's a good read, and Sarah Hoyt does some fine work bringing the Flying Circus to life, but the otherness of the story purely involved the Red Baron choosing whether to retire from the front or not. I'd have liked this more if it had been the prologue to a longer story in which we actually see what effect the Red Baron might've had in saving Germany from the Nazis, I mean, Paul Hindenburg tried, and he failed.
Trial of the Red Baron by Richard Fox - 9/10 - awkwardly, immediately after one Red Baron story, we get another, and I think this is a weakness the previous collection didn't have, while there were several stories in that collection with similar ideas, they were spread apart, and in this one they seem clumped together (as we'll see again later). HOWEVER, that said, this is a delightful story in which the British bring a captive POW Manfred von Richtofen up on charges of murder, hoping to use the case to pressure the German negotiators at Versailles, but the Red Baron is no stranger to theater and he embraces the political circus with a hilarious insouciance that made this one of my favorite stories from the collection, though there isn't actually any flying in it, which is awkward.
The Kaiserin of the Seas by Christopher Nuttall - 8/10 stars - the German Kriegsmarine sorties, accompanied by its new-built carrier, the Graf Zeppelin and the British scramble desperately to hunt down and destroy this fleet before it can wreck havoc on the Atlantic convoys. To fully appreciate this story, I'd definitely suggest watching the British WW2 classic "Sink the Bismarck," which relates the desperate battle to defeat the Bismarck, during its brief and bloody campaign. This situation is a bit worse as the few advantages the British possessed in our history are essentially negated. In many ways, this felt like a prequel to Bolger's Corsairs and Tenzans story from the previous collection.
Through the Squall by Taylor Anderson - 8/10 stars - this one's going to baffle anyone who isn't a dedicated reader of the Destroyermen books, though as I AM such, I thought it was quite good, but that's the point, it fleshes out one of the many mysteries that pervade the bizarre mixed up world of that universe, a lone PBY which our protagonists discover abandoned on a beach early in the series. I'm not going to pretend that this is going to appeal to non-Destroyermen readers, but Taylor's style is always enjoyable for me, so there you go.
The Lightning and the Cactus - 8/10 stars - set during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War 2, this story imagines the addition of a squadron of P-38's to the desperate "Cactus Air Force" operating out of Henderson Field. The story draws from a lot of the actual events around that campaign but... with P-38's. I know that description doesn't exactly sell it, but it was pretty good.
Catching the Dark by Monalisa Foster - 8/10 stars - Honestly, I didn't expect to like this story, but I found it surprisingly intriguing, it follows a day in the life of a handful of women attached to the Tsarina's Own Night Bomber Regiment (you read that right, it's World War 2, but Russia is still Imperial, with the Tsarina having survived the Revolution and come out on top). As in our history, the women of the regiment conduct essentially nuisance raids making use of the ultra-quiet and lightweight Polikarpov U-2, but rather than being daughters of the revolution, these are a collection of women from all walks of life, though most have lost loved ones to Hitler's war. It's easily the most emotional story in the collection and the ending is surprisingly touching. That said, there really isn't much different about WHAT they're doing compared to our own history.
Do the Hard Thing by Kacey Ezell - 7/10 stars - I had a single simple problem with this story, which is set in the same universe as Ezell's "Naked" from the previous collection: the whole premise doesn't make sense. In this story, the USAAF has recruited dozens of female psychics to accompany its bomber raids into Germany. The problem I have is that what the psychics do is essentially keep tabs on the crew and help them communicate... like a psychic radio head-set, but one that would get in the way and limit the amount of extra ammunition the plane could carry. Unlike the previous story where the fantasy element was used to good effect, here it seemed superfluous, a waste of an ability that ought to have much more impressive potential for intelligence gathering. That core problem meant that even though the writing was ok, the story just didn't work for me.
Tail Gunner Joe (A Story of the Time Police) by William Alan Webb - 6/10 stars - I'll be blunt, I hated this story. It's about a future historian who travels back in time and causes a minor historic figure to accidentally have a mental break down and die in combat, so the time police force the historian to live out the existence that man was supposed to have. As with the two Red Baron stories in a row, this is our second story in a row which prominently features a B-17 tail gunner, and given the annoying narrative voice, the lack of a real focus on air combat, and this feeling of repetition, I just didn't care for it.
Red Tailed Tigers by Justin Watson - 9/10 stars - set in the same universe and around the same time as For A Few Camels More from the previous collection, Red Tailed Tigers follows Benjamin Jakes and his buddy Robin Olds as they are more or less forced out of the regular Air Force and sent to Vietnam to join the 4th AVG to fly P-80's against in support of the Viet Minh against Vichy France's efforts to reclaim the country. Not only is the setting a fascinating pastiche of settings and times (for those not in the know, Robin Olds would play a pivotal role in our own war in Vietnam), but Watson's depictions of the dogfights between the AVG's second-hand P-80's and the French Me 262 are exciting and bring to life a scenario which just barely didn't happen in our own history (literally, P-80's were being deployed to Italy just as the war in Europe ended), but he also has such interesting and likeable characters. I really need to look up more of his stuff.
I need to point out that strangely, there are no alternate Korean War or Vietnam War or Arab-Israeli War of Afghan War or Indo-Pakistani War stories in this collection, basically all the great jet air wars are skipped, which is a shame as many of these conflicts are far more amenable to more drastic alternate history shifts than several of the stories in this collection. I mean, Berlin Air Lift turns bloody, nuclear Korean War, NATO intervention in the Hungarian Counter-Revolution of '56, and what if Solidarity had brought down the communist government of Poland before glasnost and the Soviets had intervened all are fascinating scenarios with plenty of air combat potential, and those are just off the top of my head. My apologies, let us continue.
Zero Dark 30 by JL Curtis - 8/10 stars - set in 1985, this is a very Tom Clancy sort of techno-thriller story in which the Soviets acquired American communication encryption data and have pinpointed one of our Ohio class SSBN's and are willing to risk World War 3 to get their hands on it, so the military scrambles a veteran P-3 crew to help the sub shake its pursuers. This is a tense and very interesting book, but it is so buried under technical jargon that even Clancy would probably have had a bit of trouble following the story. Still, a fascinating brinksmanship story.
Per Ardua Ad Astra by Jan Niemczyk - 8/10 stars - and here we have our final addition, which is yet another continuation, set in Jan Niemczyk's World War 3 2005 scenario. Whereas I criticized the first story taken from that universe in the previous collection for its severe lack of naval warfare, this one definitely fits the bill as it details day 22 of the war, and particularly the RAF's air defense interceptors, who face a variety of Soviet incursions targeting various high level assets. My only criticism is that it doesn't really build up its tension very well as we jump from engagement to engagement and generally the British clean up, which is good for the home team, but doesn't make for great story drama.
All in all, a decent collection, but it didn't really offer the variety or the risky ideas of the first collection. Sure, it didn't have as low of lows, and the overall quality seemed more on the level, but it just felt like too many of these stories didn't really have much in the way of a big idea, not a What if x occured and then y, but mostly just What if x? I find the best alternate history takes things down the line, it doesn't just introduce a variation and say, isn't that cool, it says "this variant happened" and because of it ALL these things are different, and here's a story amidst ALL THOSE THINGS. Red Tailed Tigers is a wonderful example of the latter, while the majority of these stories for me fell into the former camp, merely introducing a change not embracing and developing it. So all in all, an entertaining air combat fiction collection but it simply didn't embrace its alternate history aspect enough.
Friends in High Places by Joelle Presby and Patrick Doyle - 8/10 stars - the sequel to "A Safe Wartime Posting" from the previous collection, following his adventures in German Kamerun, Lt. Marshall has taken an interest in aviation and he's sent to Germany to learn with the Imperial German Air Service and observe its war effort against the French and British. Of course, Chief Hays is also along to watch Lt. Marshall's back and keep him and his friends out of trouble. On the one hand, this story provides a first-hand view of the strange early days of air combat on the western front. On the other hand, it's not as funny as its predecessor, and apart from the fact that a handful of American aviators are present for the first dogfights, it's not really that different from real history. Still, the characters and the historical realism are good enough to make it a worthy addition.
The Dark'ning Storms by Rob Howell - 8/10 stars - oh look, another sequel to a story in the first collection. In this story, also set in 1915, though in the universe of Rob Howell's story from the previous book where the U.S. and Spain didn't fight until 1908. A few years later, Roosevelt is nearing the end of his second term and thanks to his support the Navy has acquired the world's first aircraft carrier, but it's widely criticized as a boondoggle of limited military use, so Roosevelt sends the carrier to conduct an intense neutrality patrol in the eastern Atlantic, during the course of which, the aviators happen to observe an ocean liner headed straight for a German submarine, and the captain must make the difficult decision of how and whether to intervene. Like his previous story which illustrated the transition between the pre-dreadnaughts and dreadnaught battleships, Dark'ning Storm is also a study of a transitional period, though really it's more focused on naval warfare than air warfare. Still, an interesting story in an interesting universe.
Perchance to Dream by Sarah Hoyt - 7/10 stars - Manfred von Richtofen is troubled by dreams of his own death and visions of the future that awaits Germany, he feels that he must choose between fighting his part in a war that he no longer believes Germany can win, and doing his part to save Germany from a worse fate. It's a good read, and Sarah Hoyt does some fine work bringing the Flying Circus to life, but the otherness of the story purely involved the Red Baron choosing whether to retire from the front or not. I'd have liked this more if it had been the prologue to a longer story in which we actually see what effect the Red Baron might've had in saving Germany from the Nazis, I mean, Paul Hindenburg tried, and he failed.
Trial of the Red Baron by Richard Fox - 9/10 - awkwardly, immediately after one Red Baron story, we get another, and I think this is a weakness the previous collection didn't have, while there were several stories in that collection with similar ideas, they were spread apart, and in this one they seem clumped together (as we'll see again later). HOWEVER, that said, this is a delightful story in which the British bring a captive POW Manfred von Richtofen up on charges of murder, hoping to use the case to pressure the German negotiators at Versailles, but the Red Baron is no stranger to theater and he embraces the political circus with a hilarious insouciance that made this one of my favorite stories from the collection, though there isn't actually any flying in it, which is awkward.
The Kaiserin of the Seas by Christopher Nuttall - 8/10 stars - the German Kriegsmarine sorties, accompanied by its new-built carrier, the Graf Zeppelin and the British scramble desperately to hunt down and destroy this fleet before it can wreck havoc on the Atlantic convoys. To fully appreciate this story, I'd definitely suggest watching the British WW2 classic "Sink the Bismarck," which relates the desperate battle to defeat the Bismarck, during its brief and bloody campaign. This situation is a bit worse as the few advantages the British possessed in our history are essentially negated. In many ways, this felt like a prequel to Bolger's Corsairs and Tenzans story from the previous collection.
Through the Squall by Taylor Anderson - 8/10 stars - this one's going to baffle anyone who isn't a dedicated reader of the Destroyermen books, though as I AM such, I thought it was quite good, but that's the point, it fleshes out one of the many mysteries that pervade the bizarre mixed up world of that universe, a lone PBY which our protagonists discover abandoned on a beach early in the series. I'm not going to pretend that this is going to appeal to non-Destroyermen readers, but Taylor's style is always enjoyable for me, so there you go.
The Lightning and the Cactus - 8/10 stars - set during the Guadalcanal campaign of World War 2, this story imagines the addition of a squadron of P-38's to the desperate "Cactus Air Force" operating out of Henderson Field. The story draws from a lot of the actual events around that campaign but... with P-38's. I know that description doesn't exactly sell it, but it was pretty good.
Catching the Dark by Monalisa Foster - 8/10 stars - Honestly, I didn't expect to like this story, but I found it surprisingly intriguing, it follows a day in the life of a handful of women attached to the Tsarina's Own Night Bomber Regiment (you read that right, it's World War 2, but Russia is still Imperial, with the Tsarina having survived the Revolution and come out on top). As in our history, the women of the regiment conduct essentially nuisance raids making use of the ultra-quiet and lightweight Polikarpov U-2, but rather than being daughters of the revolution, these are a collection of women from all walks of life, though most have lost loved ones to Hitler's war. It's easily the most emotional story in the collection and the ending is surprisingly touching. That said, there really isn't much different about WHAT they're doing compared to our own history.
Do the Hard Thing by Kacey Ezell - 7/10 stars - I had a single simple problem with this story, which is set in the same universe as Ezell's "Naked" from the previous collection: the whole premise doesn't make sense. In this story, the USAAF has recruited dozens of female psychics to accompany its bomber raids into Germany. The problem I have is that what the psychics do is essentially keep tabs on the crew and help them communicate... like a psychic radio head-set, but one that would get in the way and limit the amount of extra ammunition the plane could carry. Unlike the previous story where the fantasy element was used to good effect, here it seemed superfluous, a waste of an ability that ought to have much more impressive potential for intelligence gathering. That core problem meant that even though the writing was ok, the story just didn't work for me.
Tail Gunner Joe (A Story of the Time Police) by William Alan Webb - 6/10 stars - I'll be blunt, I hated this story. It's about a future historian who travels back in time and causes a minor historic figure to accidentally have a mental break down and die in combat, so the time police force the historian to live out the existence that man was supposed to have. As with the two Red Baron stories in a row, this is our second story in a row which prominently features a B-17 tail gunner, and given the annoying narrative voice, the lack of a real focus on air combat, and this feeling of repetition, I just didn't care for it.
Red Tailed Tigers by Justin Watson - 9/10 stars - set in the same universe and around the same time as For A Few Camels More from the previous collection, Red Tailed Tigers follows Benjamin Jakes and his buddy Robin Olds as they are more or less forced out of the regular Air Force and sent to Vietnam to join the 4th AVG to fly P-80's against in support of the Viet Minh against Vichy France's efforts to reclaim the country. Not only is the setting a fascinating pastiche of settings and times (for those not in the know, Robin Olds would play a pivotal role in our own war in Vietnam), but Watson's depictions of the dogfights between the AVG's second-hand P-80's and the French Me 262 are exciting and bring to life a scenario which just barely didn't happen in our own history (literally, P-80's were being deployed to Italy just as the war in Europe ended), but he also has such interesting and likeable characters. I really need to look up more of his stuff.
I need to point out that strangely, there are no alternate Korean War or Vietnam War or Arab-Israeli War of Afghan War or Indo-Pakistani War stories in this collection, basically all the great jet air wars are skipped, which is a shame as many of these conflicts are far more amenable to more drastic alternate history shifts than several of the stories in this collection. I mean, Berlin Air Lift turns bloody, nuclear Korean War, NATO intervention in the Hungarian Counter-Revolution of '56, and what if Solidarity had brought down the communist government of Poland before glasnost and the Soviets had intervened all are fascinating scenarios with plenty of air combat potential, and those are just off the top of my head. My apologies, let us continue.
Zero Dark 30 by JL Curtis - 8/10 stars - set in 1985, this is a very Tom Clancy sort of techno-thriller story in which the Soviets acquired American communication encryption data and have pinpointed one of our Ohio class SSBN's and are willing to risk World War 3 to get their hands on it, so the military scrambles a veteran P-3 crew to help the sub shake its pursuers. This is a tense and very interesting book, but it is so buried under technical jargon that even Clancy would probably have had a bit of trouble following the story. Still, a fascinating brinksmanship story.
Per Ardua Ad Astra by Jan Niemczyk - 8/10 stars - and here we have our final addition, which is yet another continuation, set in Jan Niemczyk's World War 3 2005 scenario. Whereas I criticized the first story taken from that universe in the previous collection for its severe lack of naval warfare, this one definitely fits the bill as it details day 22 of the war, and particularly the RAF's air defense interceptors, who face a variety of Soviet incursions targeting various high level assets. My only criticism is that it doesn't really build up its tension very well as we jump from engagement to engagement and generally the British clean up, which is good for the home team, but doesn't make for great story drama.
All in all, a decent collection, but it didn't really offer the variety or the risky ideas of the first collection. Sure, it didn't have as low of lows, and the overall quality seemed more on the level, but it just felt like too many of these stories didn't really have much in the way of a big idea, not a What if x occured and then y, but mostly just What if x? I find the best alternate history takes things down the line, it doesn't just introduce a variation and say, isn't that cool, it says "this variant happened" and because of it ALL these things are different, and here's a story amidst ALL THOSE THINGS. Red Tailed Tigers is a wonderful example of the latter, while the majority of these stories for me fell into the former camp, merely introducing a change not embracing and developing it. So all in all, an entertaining air combat fiction collection but it simply didn't embrace its alternate history aspect enough.
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September 14, 2019Tales of air wars from World War 1 to World War 3, all set on Earth, but not QUITE our Earth. Sometimes the differences are large, like psychics helping aircrews or Vichy France flying Messerschmidt jets against American volunteers in Viet Nam. Other times some historical figure who did something particularly brilliant or stupid has died or been sidelined leading to different equipment or strategic position. But (as the introduction reminds us) the differences just set the stage. Good stories are about people and what they do.
And these are good stories. There's not a clunker in the collection. The advantage of an anthology is that it's in bite-sized pieces. The disadvantage is the same as with munchies- "Well, ONE more won't hurt." Then one more, then another, and before you know it your bedtime is in the rearview mirror.
Why are you still reading this? Get the book and start reading it!
And these are good stories. There's not a clunker in the collection. The advantage of an anthology is that it's in bite-sized pieces. The disadvantage is the same as with munchies- "Well, ONE more won't hurt." Then one more, then another, and before you know it your bedtime is in the rearview mirror.
Why are you still reading this? Get the book and start reading it!
January 19, 2024
Review to follow
August 22, 2021
The second in the series of alternate world war stories this time focusing on airborne conflicts and events. As such it covers a smaller range of history than the previous volume which dealt with naval encounters. Basically, we are dealing with WWW1 to the 1980s.
Several of the stories are carryovers from the prior volume set in the same alternates with the same characters in some cases. I didn't find this an issue as the stories themselves remained enjoyable. A couple of the stories suffer in my opinion in readability as they drop too far into military jargon and acronyms for the day to day non-military reader. A couple of the stories just didn't work for me but that's a personal preference.
Overall a good book but only 90% as good as the prior volume.
Several of the stories are carryovers from the prior volume set in the same alternates with the same characters in some cases. I didn't find this an issue as the stories themselves remained enjoyable. A couple of the stories suffer in my opinion in readability as they drop too far into military jargon and acronyms for the day to day non-military reader. A couple of the stories just didn't work for me but that's a personal preference.
Overall a good book but only 90% as good as the prior volume.
August 23, 2023
Great short stories
A few not so great but most really good. This multi book series of short stories makes
For good reading. Very fast paced, lots of new authors to follow up on their books.
A few not so great but most really good. This multi book series of short stories makes
For good reading. Very fast paced, lots of new authors to follow up on their books.
September 15, 2024
Readable and useful as a guide to new, to me, authors.
I found several new authors to read from this fairly focused but still eclectic group of stories. The bios and book descriptions, following, provided an insight into their potential as future authors for me to read. For the stories themselves, the post-WW2 was a cut above the rest.
I found several new authors to read from this fairly focused but still eclectic group of stories. The bios and book descriptions, following, provided an insight into their potential as future authors for me to read. For the stories themselves, the post-WW2 was a cut above the rest.
September 26, 2019
More Alt-history from a great group of authors!
Even better than Those in Peril! What happens when you get a group of authors who also fly together? You get very immersive stories that put you in the cockpit! If you’re an alt-history or military fiction fan, you’ll enjoy this one.
Even better than Those in Peril! What happens when you get a group of authors who also fly together? You get very immersive stories that put you in the cockpit! If you’re an alt-history or military fiction fan, you’ll enjoy this one.
September 15, 2019
An excellent anthology
I enjoy anthologies quite a bit, and this one did not let me down. Thrilling stories from various eras of military aviation captivate while you have a chance to meet new authors or revisit those you know.
I enjoy anthologies quite a bit, and this one did not let me down. Thrilling stories from various eras of military aviation captivate while you have a chance to meet new authors or revisit those you know.
September 20, 2019
Fun, Alternate History
A+ stories by authors that know their history.
The French 262’s over Vietnam was thought provoking.
The Night Witch story was A+.
If your visiting Seattle, the air museum just North is A+. And they have a Night Witch plane!
A+ stories by authors that know their history.
The French 262’s over Vietnam was thought provoking.
The Night Witch story was A+.
If your visiting Seattle, the air museum just North is A+. And they have a Night Witch plane!
October 21, 2019
Stories of aviation, well done
Some excellent stories from talented authors.
As a pilot myself, many of the details were well researched. I will look for other books by these authors
Some excellent stories from talented authors.
As a pilot myself, many of the details were well researched. I will look for other books by these authors
October 2, 2019
Four stars.
Few good stories, too many I just wanted to scroll thru. "Salvage title" is good story . Five more . If I just pick them at random off of the "suggested word"....
Few good stories, too many I just wanted to scroll thru. "Salvage title" is good story . Five more . If I just pick them at random off of the "suggested word"....
January 4, 2020
If you love war and alternate history then will appeal to you, it focuses on aviation and has some great stories. My only gripe is that it is a little too long in total.
February 11, 2020
An excellent set of stories with an aviation theme in alternative histories.
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